Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats have a chance to win the senatorial elections in Indiana. That fact, of some national consequence, was recognized last week by the press of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans. Concerning candidates for the Indiana Senate, Senator James E. ("Big Jim") Watson, a Republican opportunist, might well, it was conceded, be beaten by young Albert Stump, whose personality reminded older citizens of how Albert J. Beveridge had looked, and behaved at his age. Evans Woollen, an Indianapolis banker of 62, whose intellectual integrity had hitherto been considered a handicap, appeared to have some chance of beating his opponent...
Conductor Ernest Bloch came all the way from San Francisco to lead a picked handful of men with strings through Bach's steamy and impetuous "Brandenburg" concerto in G. Some of the temperament of this first performance extended, unhappily, into their execution of the next item, Mozart's lunar "Serenata Notturna," but was in place again for Mr. Bloch's own sombre, splendid composition, "Concerto Grosso...
Famous figures and events are told about with all the intimacy that is required in such a book. Barrymore's consistently distinguished family, Ethel Barrymore, John Drew, appear as perplexed spectators of the author's checkered career. What happened to this distinguished actor stranded in San Francisco at the time of the earthquake (or fire if you prefer), when people turning over for a last snooze before breakfast found themselves exposed to the startled public view and sliding pajamaed into the street; riotous nights in New York when Barymore and his cronies stole the huge plaster sword from the Dewey...
...London Bobbies' Bishop", is making a tour of the leading colleges and universities of the United States. He arrived at Ames, Iowa, on October 1, from Winnipeg, where he terminated a two months' tour of Canada, and will leave the country early in November, when he sails from San Francisco, bound for the Far East...
...colored people looked down from gilded frames within the house. . . . Why were no bronzed people like Mammy pressed into frames? Adrienne knowns nothing of her parents. For many years her love, fear, and respect centre in Mammy, who seems to know everything. This mysterious Mammy is Selina, famed San Francisco blackmailer, half Negro and half Sinclair. On her 17th birthday, Adrienne discovers the story of her parentage; meets the mighty Kajetan who promises her empires, leaves her with nothing. Then she finds a youth with burning finger tips. . . . "Did it matter whose feet pressed out the wine of life...