Word: holmsen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reno, Mrs. Mildred Tilton Holmsen sat on the curb in front of her hotel, wriggled her bare toes in the gutter, asked newshawks: "There isn't anything wrong with shorts, is there?'' Last month, clad in men's shorts and a shirt, Mrs. Holmsen rode from Manhattan to Reno on the observation platform of her train, got so dirty from soot that ''a dignified gentleman" threatened to have her put off the train as a blackamoor. In Reno, still in shorts but without shoes or stockings, she entered a restaurant bar, was chased...
Retorted Mrs. Holmsen: "It just so happens that I come from one of New York's very best families and my friends and relatives number among the most popular here and abroad. . . . If [the waiter] doesn't like bare feet and shorts, ladies who pick up gentlemen and who order milk hot but not boiled and freshly squeezed orange juice, he has but to say so in ordinary polite language...
...trooped back they deposited their trophies with Gene Tunney, Novelist Louis Bromneld, Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia, Banker Charles Hayden, Prince Lodovico Spada Varalli Potenziani, ex- Governor of Rome, who awarded prizes of $500, $300 and two cases of champagne. First to return were Mrs. John C. Waterbury & Nicholas Holmsen, who brought back a white goat, complete with keeper, and a red lantern. From his pocket resourceful Mr. Holmsen extracted a live turtle...
Marilyn Miller's step-in was the chief acquisition of the couple who shared first prize with Mrs. Waterbury & Mr. Holmsen. At the theatre where Actress Miller is dancing in As Thousands Cheer, doormen and a detective fought off a score of scavengers who tried to invade her dressing room. After her maid positively assured them that Miss Miller had no extra underthings in her room, a stocking and a step-in were sent out, autographed "With love & kisses from Marilyn." Second prize was split between the couples who brought back Fanny Brice's brassi...
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