Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoying his heightened self, his ease, his good looks, Theodosia's beauty, all the delights of remembered being. . . . Albert would come heavily into the parlor although his feet were agile and his large frame was light to his motions. He filled the parlor with his seriousness. . . . Another, Frank Railey, would stop casually on his way up or down the street, or he would take her to row on the pool beyond the town." But when Albert suddenly withdrew his challenge, releasing Theodosia for Florence Agnew, and when Conway Brooke was burned to death in a fire at night, Theodosia...
...Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg was for the moment uncertain. Who might this Dr. von Prittwitz be? Research showed him to be no more than Counselor of Embassy at the German Embassy at Rome. Was the German Government actually proposing to elevate a man of such minor rank to be an ambassador? Well, why not? He was evidently a capable, brilliant, clever diplomat. There was no reason why the U. S. should object to the appointment. The U. S. Secretary of State caused the German Government to be informed by cable that the President and Government...
Divorced. Mrs. Marilynn Miller Pickford, 29, famed musical comedy actress, from Jack Pickford, 31, cinemactor and brother of Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks; in Versailles. She charged desertion, incompatibility. Her first husband was Actor Frank Carter who died in 1920 in an automobile accident. Said she last June: "Paris divorces are easy to get!" French legal circles were vexed, the Pickford divorce suit was deferred to October...
...good pieces, among the best being "Maybe," "Clap Yo' Hads, "Do-Do-Do," "Fidgety Feet," and "Someone to Watch Over Me." Frank Crumit as the leading man and Julia--Sanderson, playing the corresponding part in the opposite sex, evidently chosen for their truly excellent voices in casting them for the roles of Jimmie Winters, the much-married hero, and Kay, the bootlegging sister of a bootlegging English duke...
...Sullivan, the authoress, was born in Nebraska. Among her acquaintances on the frontier were Buffalo Bill and Major Frank North, both of whom she called "uncle". Her family was of pioneer stock, always pushing on to the new border-land of civilization. At the period of which she writes, a fierce conflict was being waged between the cattle interests and the general commercial interests that were striving to make the West a settled country. Although only a girl at the time, Mrs. Sullivan recalls vividly these stirring events in which her own family was engulfed...