Word: grecian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Germany at the age of four. He made himself a lawyer, specializing in divorce cases and defense of gangsters. Then he took up the bootlegging racket in Cincinnati, became the richest U. S. 'legger, built himself a $1,000,000 mansion with a Grecian swimming pool, murdered his wife, Imogene. He conducted his own defense, insulted Prosecutor Charles Phelps Taft II in court, was found not guilty of murder on grounds of insanity (TIME...
...merely aphoristic to remark that before there can be a want there must be a lack. Freshmen are still being fed regularly and adequately and like the grasshoppers are likely to enjoy the present season of harvest and plenty without much thought for the coming dark winter in Grecian one-arm establishments...
...fatherland? Does the same spirit animate him that kindled the oratorical fires of the king of Sophists? If so he is a unique species. Centuries have brought changes to all countries but none so striking as those to Greece. Occasionally one runs across a person possessed of the true Grecian spirit. The proposition of Socrates modern defender would appear to indicate that he is not among that sacred...
Opening in the middle of April, First National Pictures will launch a campaign to secure for the screen those Grecian visages which to date have been obscured by the dust of the pursuit of knowledge. The fortunate youths will forthwith be shipped prepaid to Burbank, California where they will be tested thoroughly for eight weeks at $50 per week. Should the neophytes meet with the approbation and unqualified admiration of this branch of the cinema world, they will be reengaged on a scale of rapidly mounting salaries...
Isadora Duncan, danseuse: "A year after the opera bouffe suicide of my young poet-husband, Sergei Yessenin (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), I too determined to kill myself-or so my friends said last week when, at midnight, in Grecian robes and a purple mantle, I waded up to my neck in the sea at Nice, France. I myself stated that I did it on a bet with Rex Ingram, film producer, following a studio party. One Captain Patterson, Britisher with a wooden leg, rescued me from the waves...