Word: donning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explained Emanuel Koveleskie, who represents this veteran union with the American Federation of Labor: "The old-time saloon bartenders still are tending bars, but as soft drink and soda jerkers, so in the interest of accuracy we are changing the name. In New York we still call them bartenders'...
The Hollywood Revue (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is good-humored, fast film vaudeville, with nice tunes and without a story. There are some new tricks in it. When the master of ceremonies looks for Bessie Love he finds her in his change-pocket; a lilliputian Marion Davies appears with a...
Said Federal Judge Anderson in sentencing: "I don't believe a set of as simple men as you ever before carried a banking institution to destruction. No brains or ability has been shown by any one of you from James Rae Clarke down."
On the night after a woman had screamed "Don't touch me, Milica!" the Baroness Irma Molnar did not return to Starilec. She had left her estate on foot in the morning, peasant clad, without seeing to her dogs and birds as she usually did. The few old servitors...
When shrewd agents of the Jugoslav-Secret Police scurried out from Belgrade they questioned hundreds of peasants, found the boy who had heard someone cry, "Don't touch me. Milica!" Cogitating wisely, the detectives soon evolved a theory. Baroness Irma Molnar, they said with conviction, was strangled by a...