Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Casey?" wasp-waisted little wives whispered into their husbands' sideburns as young De Wolf Hopper recited the last stanza of a poem called Casey at the Bat in Wallack's Theatre on Broadway one summer night in 1888. It was a gala baseball night in honor of the visiting Chicago White Stockings and the management had clipped the tragi-comic verses out of the San Francisco Examiner for young Hopper to deliver as an added fillip between the acts of the operetta, Prince Methusalem...
...De Wolf Hopper died three years ago and it was about that time that a wizened little septuagenarian from Silver Springs, Md. walked into a Washington newspaper office and presented himself as the original Casey. Dan Casey had been saying it for 50 years in his native Binghamton, N. Y., where he had worked as a trolley-car conductor since retiring from baseball, but no one had paid much attention. In Washington, however, it was different...
...David J. De Kruif -- Miss Elizabeth Woodruff, Smith...
Fran Linz Beermann will be played by Miss Victor. Fran Bolland, Miss Garfield; Fran Lund, an elderly lady, Miss Constable; Effle, Beermann's daughter, Miss Chaffee; Ninon de Hauteville, a lady of leisure, Miss Dorothea Macmillan...
...arts are among those evidences, and for 150 years U. S. citizens have been asking themselves if and when the arts of the U. S., as such, would add another noble tradition to the world's stock. This week in Paris, at the long, two-story Jeu de Paume Museum in the Tuileries Gardens, some earnest people from Manhattan are putting the finishing touches on the most elaborate demonstration ever made in Europe that that tradition is now available...