Word: evelyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toying with a golf club; good-naturedly, he steps to the window, picks up a rifle, shoots the stoolpigeon. That is the beginning of a lusty underworld melodrama written by Oliver H. P. Garrett, onetime reporter for the New York World, produced by Paramount, acted by George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell...
Finally filled, the children sat in regurgitating placidity while prizes were awarded. William Dattner, 12, and Evelyn Williams, 13, received awards for having more freckles than any of the other little children. Eilene and Peggy Goeble, dressed like Gold Dust Twins, got prizes for the most original costume. When it came to choosing the fattest boy at the party, Jack Linder of 1340 Third Avenue* flopped up to the judges to claim...
Soon after 5 o'clock in the morning the three motors of the Trimotored Fokker monoplane Friendship, which Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd sold several weeks ago when he decided not to use it on his proposed South-Polar flight, began to hum. The ship taxied out from the boat-landing of the Jeffrey Yacht Club in East Boston. Further out in the harbor the Friendship made four attempts to leave the water; then one of the crew of four stepped off onto a tug nearby. This time when the plane slid over the misty water the spray faded suddenly...
...Tiger Lady. With Adolphe Menjou in the costume of a Rajah, well-nigh anything is rather more than likely to happen. He is not, however, a real Rajah; but only a "super" in a Parisian revue. He yearns for the haughty leading lady (Evelyn Brent) who keeps counts & dukes, likes to go to the zoo. She puts "Super" Menjou to her favorite test: he must enter a tiger's cage and rescue her silk gloves. Approaching the beast, he notes with pleasure that it had died the night before. He does the proper thing...
South. An organization called Byrd Aviation Associates was formed last week to give "moral and material support" to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's expedition to the Antarctic, scheduled for September. Charles Evans Hughes is chairman; Edsel Ford treasurer...