Word: downes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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For a year and a half the Pavlowa company trekked down the East Coast of South America, across the Andes, up the West Coast to Panama, thence to Cuba, Mexico. When she returned to the U. S., Ruth was given the leading role in John Alden Carpenter's ballet, The...
Herbert Bayard Swope, retired Executive Editor of the New York World, and his wife, sued one James Reynolds of Yonkers, N. Y., for $100,000 and $75,000 damages respectively. In 1927 the Reynolds car ran into the Swope car, injuring Mr. Swope's nose, cutting Mrs, Swope's face...
Artist Robinson first concerned himself with medium-what to paint with, what on. He decided on canvas because he could then work anywhere and the murals, when finished, could be easily moved about. He then asked himself what paint had had the benefit of most research and chemical improvement. Obviously...
A momentary hero during the break was John Davison Rockefeller, who said he and his son had been buying stocks. When prices continued to go down so did Rockefeller's glory. But when last week Standard Oil of New Jersey was selling at 50¾, the market was electrified by an...
Close to the crenelated, neo-Gothic heart of the University of Chicago is one "Doc" Bratfish. Few Chicago men-students in the last 25 years have not had a shave & haircut from him. He it is who each year examines upper lips and fires a gun to start the seniors...