Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learn about his mysterious friend it would gradually dawn on them how unusually "logical" and defensible an appointment it was. Not the thinnest cream of the jest would be when newspaper readers and editors discovered that the "unknown's" name has appeared daily for many years on the front pages of leading U. S. newspapers-in the tiny bottom-line advertisements which say: "When you think of Writing, think of Whiting." The personal phase of the appointment was that from the time Calvin Coolidge was president of the Massachusetts Senate (1914-15), William Fairfield Whiting has believed...
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...evenings, Georgians, Ossets, Inguschs and Armenians used to assemble in front of the bar in their colorful costumes, and in the morning the workmen's newspaper was better informed about the events in Caucasia than the larger papers in town...
Money. In Terre Haute, Ind., money moved from behind iron bars, to the curb in front of the Citizens National Bank & Trust Co. Within a cage set up on the sidewalk sat a teller. Banking motorists could cash checks, make deposits, without leaving their cars...
Married. Helen Hayes, famed & winsome actress (What Every Woman Knows, Coquette); and Charles MacArthur, playwright (Lulu Belle, The Front Page, with Ben Hecht); in Manhattan. Of the wedding party were Critic Alexander Woollcott, Novelist Ben Hecht...