Word: dressere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth Tom Slick went West to seek his fortune. Starting in the oil fields of Southern Illinois, he followed the derricks as roustabout, mule-skinner, tool-dresser, driller. With dollars accumulated from purchase and sale of oil leases during boom years around 1906, he "wildcatted." No oil. More dollars; another dry hole. Again he drilled. Oil. Fortune. He sold his first holdings for $2,500,000, and took a flier in rails, in utilities. But oil paid better. He returned to the fields, making more money to buy rail holdings. Fortune turned to vast fortune. He built a railroad...
This year's course is one of a long line offered to the people of Cambridge through the generosity of Thomas Dowse, leather-dresser, and book-collector of Cambridgeport, who decades ago bequeathed to the City of Cambridge a fund the income of which was to be spent annually in providing one or more series of talks of highest character on literary or scientific subjects. Among the notable Dowse lecturers in the past have been Edward Everett in 1811, Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1821, Charles Summer in 1830, Wendell Phillips in 1831, and Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...Pedro harbor fluttered with bunting, resounded with saluting cannon. The U. S. S. Maryland steamed out; first stop Corinto, Nicaragua. When the Hoovers went to their cabin Mrs. Hoover had to admire the first vanity dresser ever installed on a U. S. warship. Mr. Hoover, unpacking, cast a bright eye on his new-bought kit of deep-sea fishing tackle. Watching the lazy Pacific swells some of his first thoughts were about the monster sailfish, amber-jacks, tuna, wahoos, crevalles and yellowtails that live off the coast of Lower California and in the tide-rips from there to Chile...
...Circus. Two significant features of this piece: it is aeronautical but has nothing to do with the 1914-18 shellfire; its cast includes Louise Dresser, who was in two Manhattan cinema openings last week (see A Ship Comes In.) Miss Dresser may be depended upon when she assumes a mother role. She looks not unlike Irene Rich and shares with her the distinction of most able protagonist of domesticity among cinemactresses. As the mother of Buddy Blake, aviator-aspirant, Louise Dresser is properly maternal when her son fails to pass a test, is properly proud when he does pass...
...cinema. No exception is this story of an immigrant who, unjustly imprisoned, is released only to find that his son has been overwhelmed in the big noise of 1914-18. Rudolph Schildkraut is languid as the immigrant. This is one of two pictures in which able Louise Dresser gives simultaneous, current Manhattan performances...