Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Among other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford of Dearborn, Mich., and Frank W. Stearns, of Boston. C. The President received Barren Collier, Manhattan advertising man. was told that a business survey of 3.500 U. S. communities pointed to a prosperous 1929. ¶The President received President-Elect Herbert Hoover, welcomed him back from South America. What the President said, what the President-Elect said, was not made public. A later conference between outgoing and incoming Administrations was held behind closed doors from which only silence emanated. Correspondents maintained that President and President-Elect had decided that an extra...
...Health Association, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Dean Frank W. Nicolson of Wesleyan University, secretary) and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (Louis I. Dublin, statistician) collated the vital history of 40,000 graduates of eight colleges from 1870 to 1905, of 5,000 athletes of ten colleges and 6,500 honor students of six colleges from graduation until June...
...Frank Maurrant, belligerently righteous stagehand, appears. He is the type that lives with his lower teeth bared. Filippo Fiorentino, music teacher, appears, bearing ice cream cones for everybody. Mrs. Hildebrand and tots appear in time to be caught by a social service worker as they come from the movies: they have been living on charity since Mr. Hildebrand ran off with another woman. More talk of the heat. The crowd disperses. It is quiet except for the rumble of the subway, the bell of a fire engine, the bark of a dog. Mrs. Maurrant's daughter Rose appears with...
...Next morning stagehand Frank Maurrant leaves for Stamford, a show is trying out there. Mrs. Maurrant tells Sankey, her lover. He goes upstairs. The curtains are drawn. Sammy Kaplan sees Sankey go upstairs, sees the shade lowered...
...Cambridge the records purchased run to extremes, they may be one of the asbestos wrapped variety, they may be Beethoven, or they may be modernistic. Joe Venuti, Red Nichols, Ted Lewis, and Whitman are the favorite orchestras. least popular are "Hill-Billy", Frank Crumit, Vernon-Dalhart-Death-of little-Marion Parker, Victor Herbert, and sentimental recordings...