Word: flournoy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elizabeth Flournoy Smith, California Democrat, member (resigned) of the State Central Committee. Reason: Tammany...
...Actress Gertrude Saunders, Composer Ford Dabney and many another Harlem notable-fashionable Dr. H. Binga Dismond, for example, and ¶ Franklin Carr, the mortician. The ten-course dinner had been cooked by Irvin ¶ Miller himself, president of the Foot-Lights Club and of Miller Productions, Inc., brother of Flournoy D. Miller, the musical comedian. Flournoy Miller's stage partner, Aubrey Lyles, was there, as one of the principal speakers. And of course there was the guest of honor, Actress Florence Mills, just back from...
...softshoe. In fact it was quite by accident that he went on the stage. People who were convulsed by the Messrs. Miller & Lyles in Shuffle Along, Runnin Wild, George White's Scandals, Rang Tang, and other reviews, would be surprised to know that diminutive Aubrey Lyles and tall Flournoy D. Miller (nephew of Bishop Evans Tyree of the African Methodist Church) were undergraduates at Fisk University when they got their first laugh. They had to box together in a gymnasium class, and the discrepancy in their sizes was so ludicrous that each instinctively "clowned it." After that they worked...
...Missouri, the winner of the Missouri Valley Conference, by a score of 6-6, defeated Northwestern by a score of 18-7, and won all of its eight other games, several of which were against leading teams of the South. In addition, this team, among other stars, boasted "Peggy" Flournoy, who was picked by 29 out of 30 southern sporting writers for All-Southern Back, and has already been mentioned among some of the All-American selections. This player led the entire country in the number of touchdowns made and points scored...