Word: janes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. George W. Dodge, 83, President of the First National Bank of Shinglehouse, Pa.; to Mrs. Jane F. Swallow, 81, Civil War nurse; in New York City. When paying for the wedding license the bridegroom produced a $20 bill, chuckled, said: "Uncle Sam makes these, but they're no good until I sign them,"* pointed to his signature as President of the Shinglehouse bank. After the ceremony he said: "If you could express how I feel, it would not look well in print-I feel bully...
...after the story is under way, no fairminded reader will deny that Mr. Lardner is doing his flat and level best not to get funny. Chapter Six begins: "It was at a petting party in the Whits House that I first met Jane Austen." He took her to see Gov. Al ("Peaches") Smith, who complimented her: "I thought The Green Hat was a scream...
...knew how to cure encephalitis lethargica (sleeping sickness) two years ago when Mrs. Jane Norton Grew Morgan, wife of John Pierpont Morgan contracted the disease. She drowsed for eight weeks, then died. Nor do doctors yet know how to cure it. It is one of the small number of diseases, including cancer and rheumatic fever, of which the cause is still obscure, and because the cause remains hidden the proper mode of treatment must of necessity remain haphazard and the cure a matter more of chance than of science...
...statesmen. A plot however, is mere parsley when the eyes and ears are well feasted. Pinwheel. Expressionism went on a debauch at the Neighborhood Playhouse (Manhattan) last week. Coney Island calliopes tooted, factory whistles shrieked, elevated trains jangled, klaxons yowled, saxophones clucked and gurgled during 16 scenes. A "Jane" (stenographer) is seduced by a "Guy," is married by a "Bookkeeper," is kept by a "Sugar Daddy." She shoots a taxicab driver and misbehaves generally. That is the way Author Francis Edwards Faragoh, Hungarian by birth, sees Greater New York. His Pinwheel sputters, squawks, dies like a skyrocket that never left...
...James John Davis: "I am essentially a home woman. I devote much time and care to my five children-James, Jane, Jean, Joan and Jewel...