Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene was the western tip of the Seip Mound, near Bainbridge, Ohio. The diggers, Curator Harry C. Shetrone and Director C. W. Mills of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society (Columbus), and Archaeologist Gerard Fowke, of Maysville, Ky. The remains seemed to be those of royal personages among the ancient Mound Builders-a late Stone Age race that threw, up its totemic burial tumuli from the Rockies to the Atlantic and the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico...
Carey & Cooke. Horizons broadened. Buffalo grew. The Marine Trust Co. became a mighty institution. The red-fronted bazaars of F. W. Woolworth began to make annual fortunes. Mr. Coote, in the fullness of years became chairman of the board of the former, a director of the latter. B. F. Keith's theatres prospered at the chief railroad junctions. Cornell University acquired international fame. Mr. Cooke is director of the former, trustee of the latter...
...Merry Widow. Love's riotous comedy supreme gave Director Erich von Stroheim a thousand opportunities to present the tintinnabulating toe, the flirting knee. Much to his credit, he seized only the hundred best, and between times permitted Mae Murray to stand still long enough to act. Grandly she, the widowed Midasette, rebuffed the too confident lips of two Princes. And at the end-when the film became a gorgeous mass of greenery, blazing red uniforms, glittering gems- most elegantly did she submit to the manlier, younger, poorer son of a King...
...entertain a slight bias, he being director and chief librarian of the British Museum, a onetime (1917-21) President of the British Academy, a member of numerous societies and academies devoted to classical culture, a scholar deeply steeped in Oxford tradition and repeatedly honored by universities from Athens to Ohio...
...Director Duerr of the Zeppelin Co., said in Berlin: "No German airship ever broke in two in the air, but this has happened twice with English airships...