Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor Walker, seldom before the pigeon-splashed city clock has marked noon. Since the day Governor Smith singled him out of the State Senate for Job No. 3, much water has gone under political bridges. But Mayor Walker, though he was once president of Silver King Water Co. ("A Good Mixer"), is not the kind to care where the water goes...
...three years Mayor Walker has given the people "out front" a good show. New Yorkers still call him "bright," "witty," "clever," "simply screaming." He still dresses like a vaudeville...
...still ride on them cheerfully. Additional busses have never materialized because, with the Mayor's consent, a franchise was awarded to a worthless company. These sins of omission New York's millions of voters are ready to forgive, owing chiefly to inertia, other diversions, and the persuasive good-fellowship of Tammany Hall...
...theatre owner. Last week when Mr. & Mrs. Fairbanks (Mary Pickford) left Hollywood for Manhattan, Jokester Grauman hired Jo-Jo, a trained cinema goose whose accomplishments are worth $25 a day; dressed him fastidiously, left him in the Fairbanks stateroom with a message wishing the couple "a goose of a good time." Jo-Jo was not returned before train time. His owner grew worried, threatened to sue Jokester Grauman for $2,500. Jokester Grauman, flustered, wired Mr. Fairbanks at Albuquerque, N. Mex.: "Hope you had a good laugh with the goose. Please ship him back immediately...
After all, the Freshman Jubilee is a good deal like life. Weeks spent in discussion of the proper date so that no numeral man will have to break training on the night before the big game are accompanied by weeks of arrangement with butchers and bakers and electricians. Months, almost, of careful thought, a few moments of careless laughter in the dim light of quadrangle and common room and then the sun rises upon janitors picking up waste paper and commenting upon the abraded condition of the parquetry floor...