Word: halled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bottle-like glass cases, side-by-side on long shelves resembling wine racks, the rolls of celluloid are kept like vintages. Some of those in the burned building were unreduplicable parts of pictures now in production-the whole negative of Jazz Heaven, two days work on Dance Hall, the complete negative of The Vagabond Lover (starring girl-crazing Rudy Vallee) and Night Parade. Every existing negative of Douglas Fairbanks' and Mary Pickford's The Taming of the Shrew was rumored to have been destroyed. Then somebody found they had been taken out just before the fire. About...
...TIME, Oct. 21). 2) Because Max Epstein of Chicago, besides being philanthropist and financier (tank cars, directorships), is an outstanding connoisseur and collector of paintings. Many a Harvard law student is aided by the Max Epstein Loan Fund. The University of Chicago has a Max Epstein Dispensary and Social Hall. Lately Mr. Epstein combined his hobby and his philanthropy. Last fortnight the University of Chicago announced receipt from him of $1,000,000 for an art center where esthetic history and theory will be studied and taught, pundits will lecture, exhibitions will be held. The building will stand near...
...Chicago, 52 civil service aspirants appeared at City Hall where they undressed, were measured, answered questions on law, diplomacy, U. S. history, the number of dogs in Chicago. This procedure eliminated all but 21 who were sent into another room, made to chase imaginary dogs in a hypothetical back yard. One Philip Keafta, who had chinned himself 45 times, held his breath 45 seconds, ran about the room, tripped on a taut wire hazard, fell and broke his ankle. He was qualified, however, and when he emerges from the hospital will, be s City Dog Catcher, salary...
Tammany. "After all, Tammany Hall for a century has been the dominating political party in the city of New York. . . . Had I accepted advice, I would not have spoken in Tammany Hall just one week after my nomination for the Presidency. But I had my strongest inclination to speak in Tammany Hall at just that very time. I had been identified with Tammany Hall for a quarter of a century. I always had its full and loyal support. I felt that in my hour of great success my place was among my friends...
...have probably heard The Sidewalks of New York one million times, all over the Atlantic seaboard, through the South, the Middle West and in Butte, Montana. ... I spoke at Oklahoma City on religious tolerance. Listeners in on the radio were particularly disturbed because of the noises in the hall which they believed were disorder. The fact is that a large part of the noise was created by an individual about halfway down the hall who continuously shouted: 'Pour it on 'em, Al, pour it on 'em. . . .' When I spoke in Louisville the heat in the meeting...