Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sent to be kidnaped so as to enable a detective, trailing him, to find another kid kidnaped by the same gang, has the right flavor in spite of its slow movement and the extraordinary stupidity of the criminals. Hero Bennett, 12, uses to advantage certain metallic mots by Harriet Ford and the late Harvey O'Higgins. "You win the ten thousand dollars reward. What will you do with it?" . . . "I'll count it." Best shot: the kidnapers in Grand Central Station, Manhattan...
...Father Murray's struggle to keep Son Murray from "throwing" the championship for the sake of an expert brunette (Actress Suzanne Caubaye) who gets her orders from a masterminded nightclub gangster (Actor Robert Gleckler of Broadway fame). Father Murray has the assistance of an Honest Home Girl (Actress Harriet MacGibbon) and a High-Minded Sportswriter...
...Harriet M. Johnson's almost unique 'Children in the Nursery School" is one of the latest analyzations of the youthful educational problem. It is published by The John Day Company and is a clear and practical presentation of the workings of an experimental school. The Nursery School the author describes was organized in 1919 by The Bureau of Educational Experiments. In view of the new realization of the first three years of childhood and the attendant establishment of nursery schools throughout America, the problem dealt with will have a wide interest in educational circles...
...Cramer, Chairman, and Betty B. Siegel; E. L. Fisher and Harriet Sussman; Leo Huberman and Alice Rosenberg; George Hurwitz and Ruth Green; S. S. Korzenik and Edith Freedman; Milton C. Lack and Beatrice Lourie...
...confusion. The entire kitchen staff has gone on strike. Count Veruda (of unknown antecedents) has asked everyone to join him at dinner on his yacht which is lying in the harbor. Some of the ladies have demurred through lack of confidence in the count. One of these ladies, Miss Harriet Perkins, confers with Septimius. Septimius suddenly discovers that he would much like to dine with Miss Perkins. He suggests that there is nothing wrong about a wholesale acceptance of the count's kind invitation. Soon all are aboard The Vanguard, most sumptuous yacht of current fiction...