Word: goldfish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Penney home is a spacious Italian Renaissance villa of white limestone with a low roof of apricot-colored tiles. It overlooks Biscayne Bay, is set in the midst of tropical greenery cut by serpentine driveways. On the estate is a shallow goldfish pool bright with water blossoms, a mosaic tiled swimming pool, a putting green and an observatory with a little cupola like those of Mohammedan minarets...
From Mr. Irwin's report of what happened after that, you learn that Mary Pickford's girlhood ambition was to earn $20.000 a year before she was 20, that Samuel Goldwyn's real name is Goldfish, that David Wark Griffith was once a reporter, Cecil B. De Mille a writer of vaudeville sketches, and that Playwright Eugene O'Neill's father, James O'Neill, acted in Zukor's first pictures. You learn how Ben Schulberg and Hiram Abrams. after the latter had been discharged by Zukor, organized United Artists; how Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, David Wark Griffith came...
...Fishbowl. Up to last week the Council had always sat in a small, glass enclosed room, scurrilously famed as "The Goldfish Bowl." Originally the "bowl" was the conservatory of an old hotel, which hotel is now the musty Secretariat of the League of Nations. During the Summer the old "Fishbowl" was demolished and a new once, twice as large, built at a cost...
...actors. Chaliapin drew a charcoal cartoon of himself which amused his audience but did not stop their demands for song. Chaliapin rose a third time, went through the motions of an aria, puffing his chest, swinging his arms, opening and shutting his mouth like a large Russian goldfish, without making a sound. After the performance was over, he said that he could not sing for nothing because of his contracts...
...days after his visit to John Ringling's menagerie, President Coolidge received a one-animal menagerie in his office. It came in a goldfish bowl and consisted of a horned toad (Phrynosoma cornutum). Old Rip, the toad's name was, because it was supposed to have been buried in the cornerstone of the Eastland, Tex., court house, for 31 years. That it was still alive, President Coolidge could plainly see. As he discussed its merits with Senator Mayfield and some other Texans, he pointed at it, not with his finger, but with the bars of his horn-rimmed...