Word: holde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beauty contest. Later, in the cast of George White's Scandals, she began to sing songs sitting, droop-lipped, on a piano; then in Americana, then in her own night club, she climbed from the piano-top to success. When Miami persuaded Universal to hold the film premiere of Show Boat in its town instead of Palm Beach last month, Helen Morgan went by plane from Manhattan to climb upon the inevitable piano, stimulated by the applause of many notables. When she had sung, Joe Frisco capered, W. C. Fields was called from his balcony seat to tell...
Though the State Department has not yet recognized Soviet Russia it was recently held in Manhattan by Federal Judge Goddard that "civil contracts, such as marriage, performed according to Russian law, hold good in the United States, despite the absence of diplomatic recognition...
...Yukon's blackness: it is stuffed, crammed, jammed with malacopterygian teleosteans. By tens of thousands they are crowding upstream. Waterfalls as high as 15 ft. cannot stop them; a flirt of their powerful tails puts them over. They plunge under the face of higher falls, seeking a tail-hold for a second leap. As they hurl their sleek, silvery bodies over the falls, it is clear why they are called "salmon." (Latin salmo means "a leaper.") Goal of the jostling, leaping fish is the quiet of the Yukon's upper pools. Swimming stoutly against the current, it will...
...Labor party certainly did not subscribe to the Balfour Note," shouted back Mr. Snowden, "and it should hold itself open, if circumstances arise, to repudiate the conditions of that note...
Galleries XIV, XV, XVI, and XVII of the Fogg Museum, which were used until April 6 to hold the Exhibition of Nineteenth Century French Paintings, have been hung with several new acquisitions, new loans, and pictures which previously belonged to the Museum...