Word: goode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fred Stone, still recuperating from his airplane crash of last August, visited the Hollywood ranch of his good friend and theatrical understudy, Funnyman Will Rogers. To show his physical fitness he rode a bicycle, danced a jig, told watching reporters that in November he would return to Broadway for a new show, Ripples. Playing with him in her first appearance will be Paula Stone, his 17-year-old daughter. Dorothy Stone, his 19-year-old, hurried to Manhattan last week to replace Ruby Keeler Jolson, ill, in Show Girl (TIME...
...golf clubmember can either: buy a ball, pay his caddy, have two beers in his club house. For $1, a golf non-clubmember can: borrow a set of clubs, play golf all day long on public links, have a good time. Last week the best of the public linksters had even a better time, played in the annual National Public Links championship at Forest Park Golf Club. St. Louis. Railway clerks, postal employes, butlers, competed against bank-runners, shoe salesmen, bellboys. There were some low scores. In the qualifying round, Brooklyn's Henry Fabrizio took a 70, three others...
...only three games in a similar two-set match. Now she won twelve, with a whamming overhead serve, a flashing forehand drive that made her look at least twice the Betty Nuthall that played in the U. S. two years ago. Twelve games against Big Helen Wills takes good tennis, even if Big Helen Wills takes 16 games from you meantime and wins match and cup 8?6. 8?6. "The modern forehand drive . . . means Helen Wills," laughed sporting Betty Nuthall...
Sleek Frenchmen, great-throated Germans, hearty Englishmen, voluble Belgians, blond Swedes, good-natured Austrians, ill-tailored Czechs, pompous Italians, hungry Letts, solid Dutchmen, bland Danes, swarthy Poles, incomprehensible Lithuanians, dour Spaniards, excitable Serbs, fish-eating Finns, bony Norwegians, polyglot Swiss, egregious Estonians and 100% Americans-all these to the number of 4,000 assembled last week in Berlin. Greatest of them all were the Americans, 1,000 in number. They were most plentiful because they considered themselves and are considered the world's foremost exponents of the meeting's subject-advertising...
Author Brod, responsible for a good chronicle of European Jews entitled Reubeni, is extremely doleful in this, his latest novel...