Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dilworth Lupton, Minister of the First Unitarian Church, Cleveland, Ohio, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel this morning...
...case with most autobiographies of famous or semi-famous people this volume gives the impression that it was written because Bill Hart had nothing better to do. In spite of this fact it is interesting reading, being a simple story of one of the first world famous movie stars which is straightforward enough to avoid the possible criticism that it is the work of some other hand. The mere fact that Hart has already four books to his credit is enough to prove this fact...
...come in for so much newspaper comment and publicity in the past few months, are now put between the covers of a novel, and furnish such good entertainment, apparently, that they are the selection of the Literary Guild for their readers in the month of June. "Little Caesar", the first novel of W. R. Burnett, published by the Dial Press, is the new Baedeker to gangland, drawing chiefly on the shady side of the night clubs for its material...
Fifteen minutes before the first Harvard boat started upstream on its trial, the Yale crew was sent over the same course for a speed test. No time for this run was taken in the Crimson camp. The performance of the Harvard eight tonight differed only a few seconds from the previous test, but is considerably slower than the 20 minute 43 second clocking of the Leader combination...
...Monday afternoon the military ball players decisively repelled the Boston College aggregation. "Captain" Kidd, crack Marine hurler, was on the mound and it is not likely that he will get the call, today. He did the pitching in the first encounter this spring, but Smith, a southpaw, is slated to oppose the Harvard batters today...