Word: errand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thief. His mistress forgives him a serious larceny, provided he swear on the Cross to mend his ways. This the poor wretch solemnly does, whereupon, to prove her faith in him, the benefactress despatches him to bring a purse of rubles from the village. In the course of the errand, the money is accidentally lost. The miserable serf hangs himself from a rafter in the barn, while an honest traveler returns the money found along the roadside, to the owner. Director Nelidov, with scanty equipment, made such a good picture that now, after nine years of obscurity, it is being...
...bartender gave his name as H. H. Tammen. He had started life as a waif, he said, who had found shelter in a Philadelphia saloon, where he became cuspidor and errand boy at the age of seven. It was warm in the saloon, there was free food and from the beer-spotted newspapers left by customers he had learned how to read. He was, he guessed, clever as a kid, for he had risen swiftly to heights of bartending. Before he was 21 he had reigned over a prodigious expanse of dazzling brass and mahogany in the Palmer House, right...
...Governess went back to Wyoming. The nation's last glimpse of her as an official was probably to be this kindly errand for the potent tribe of Gimbel. She retires in January in favor of Frank E. Emerson, who defeated her by some 1,000 votes...
...Marquis de Bardelys, Favorite To His Majesty King Louis XIII, Wooed The Fair Lady Roxalanne de Lavedan On A Wager, And Won Her By True Love; And Also An Account Of How The Aforementioned Marquis de Bardelys Involved Himself In Sundry Cruel Mishaps The While Intent Upon His Naughty Errand, And Near Came By Losing His Young Head...
...inches, a depth of 4 inches was brought 865 miles to be given to the President and Mrs. Coolidge? Answer: a cherry pie (containing 5,000 selected cherries) carried to White Pine Camp by Wallace H. Keep, college mate of Mr. Coolidge at Amherst, an honest publicity errand for the Grand Traverse Cherry Growers of Michigan. ¶Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg flitted in and out at White Pine Camp during most of the week. He conferred with the President on Mexico and the World Court, left for Plattsburg, N. Y., where he made a speech on disarmament, said...