Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sign of the Leopard. "I cannot disturb Mr. Wallace-he has just started a new play." With these words, the secretary of Edgar Wallace endeavored to discourage a telephonic caller who immediately replied, "Very well-I will hold the wire until he finishes it." Such is the reputation for alacrity in composition of the playwright-novelist-journalist who keeps London and England in a perpetual state of horror at his inventions. In the U. S., his horrid fancies occasion less alarm. In this, what with switching backward and forward, after the fashion cf the cinema, in time sequence, and supplying...
...John Andrew Prior 182 *Howard Whitmore, Jr. 181 *Thomas Gaunt Moore 158 Joseph Stanley Cunningham 141 Stuart Gordon Hardy 134 George Akin Tupper 127 James Richard Carter 126 Hulburd Johnston 105 Alfred Skinner Woodworth 99 William Temple Emmet 94 Lawrence Milton Shapiro 84 Edward Fuller Fitzhugh, Jr. 84 Edgar Ward La Due 81 Thomas Francis Tucker, Jr. 72 Votes thrown out 7 Total 2576 CLASS SECRETARY *Richard Arnold Stout 126 Richard Fullington Stevens 99 James de Normandie 85 Charles McKim Norton 56 Votes thrown out 2 Total 368 CLASS COMMITTEE *Winslow Carlton 237 *William Sterling Youngman, Jr. 215 John Parkinson...
...CLASS SECRETARY (Permanent Class Office) James de NormandieCharles McKim Norton Richard Fullington Stevens Richard Arnold Stout FOR CLASS DAY COMMITTEE (Seven to be elected) James Richard Carter Thomas Gaunt Moore Lawrence Milton Shapiro Joseph Stanley Cunningham Edgar Ward La Due Thomas Francis Tucker, Jr. William Temple Emmett John Andrew Prior John Tudor Edward Fuller Fitzhugh, Jr. James Luther Reid George Akin Tupper Stuard Gordon Hardy Kenneth Douglas Robinson, Jr. Howard Whitmore, Jr. Hulburd Johnston Edward William Sexton Alfred Skinner Woodworth FOR CLASS COMMITTEE (Two to be elected--Permanent Class Office) Winslow Carlton James Lawrence, Jr. John Parkinson William Sterling Youngman...
...Edgar Ward LaDue of Hoopwell Junction, New York...
Thus wrote Rewrite Man Edgar Allen Poe in the Birmingham Age-Herald last week. His name, startling, aroused no curiosity in habitual readers of the Age-Herald who know that Newsman Poe spells his middle name with an "e" where Poet Poe spelled it with an "a," and that Newsman Poe is no relative of Poet...