Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed comedian, whose antics in Whoopee pay him $5,000 weekly, declared last week he would leave the stage after the present season, retire to his farm in Great Neck, L. I. "After my five daughters went to bed one night," said he, "my wife, my doctor and I held a conference. . . . We decided that Eddie should go in for being a country gentleman...
...kept from being all talk by the intelligent acting of Ronald Colman. What does the bored British officer with the poetic eyes and the little mustache do when the gang catches him? Does he fight his way out for the sake of the lovely girl whose uncle is held captive in a house where anything might happen? You are quite safe in feeling assured that in all circumstances such an officer will behave as gallantry prescribes. Best shot: the effect of the fall of a spoon in the dining room of the English Club...
Quite as exciting as the fact that because of the King's illness, this was the first formal Court a British Queen had held alone for 29 years, was the fact that California's Helen Wills, the world's most beautiful tennis champion, was about to be presented. The crowd swarmed like bees about the Rolls-Royce (borrowed) in which Miss Wills's Grecian "poker" face showed, beside her equally statuesque blonde California friend Harriet ("Hatsy") Walker. Unperturbed, while sweating policemen held back the crowds, Miss Wills sketched in a notebook. After a while she pulled...
...record-smashing round of 67 by Hagen. Diegel had cracked out a 69 himself that afternoon. Next morning he cracked up and had to hit his ball 82 times before holing out at lunch time. Hagen, wind or no wind, dropped back to his steady 75 pace, and held it during the afternoon. Diegel needed a 70 to tie, another 69 to win. He took 77, and dropped behind U. S. Open Champion Johnny Farrell (294) to finish third with...
...wheelbarrows trundle through U. S. streets, yards, farms. To 22 types this number should be reduced. Last week the Department came to grips with men's pajamas and their standardization. On request of the nightwear manufacturers' division of the International Association of Garment Manufacturers, a conference was held at Washington to define a minimum standard measurement for male pajamas...