Word: janes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston theatre. and, Mr. Cohan had no idea that he wasn't a veteran of many such interviews. Or if he did, he politely made no comment about it. A day or two later came an interview with Senator Underwood, and a few days thereafter one with Jane Cowl. In each case, the lowly candidate was a representative of the Harvard CRIMSON, the University daily, the only daily newspaper in a city of over a hundred thousand (Advt.). He was on an equal footing with veteran papers, and he was treated with as much consideration...
...cotton shirt and overalls. Occasionally a promising dip of his long fishpole caused his eyes to sparkle momentarily; occasionally an intrepid fly was rewarded with an energetic slap. . . . Occasionallv, too, he shot a glance of stern disapproval across the wharf, where the Courtney children-Martha, four, and Jane, six-romped carelessly. Suddenly, simultaneous shrieks rent the air, mingling with the splash of water. Two struggling figures swept beneath the projecting fishpole. The boy jumped. Seizing one girl by the hair, setting his teeth into the dress of the other, he floated both until help came in the form...
...Their Majesties twice sought the theatre last week, twice graciously applauded able mummers- U. S. mummers. At the snug Empire Theatre, Fred and Adele Astaire delighted Royalty with that song and dance, Lady Be Good. Next evening Miss Jane Cowl brazened before the grandson of super purist Queen Victoria, in Easy Virtue. From the King-Emperor's vocal chords there issued not, last week, the baleful rebuke with which his grandmama blasted all questionable jests (even one cracked precociously in infancy by the present Edward of Wales) : "We are not amused...
...Upton to Congresswomen Kahn, Rogers, Norton, Governesses Ross and Ferguson, who are really not leaders of women's movements at all; leaders of "social" movements such as Edith Rockefeller McCormick; leaders who have distinguished themselves in their own professions, such as Judge Florence Allen, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Jane Addams; women who have approached public life from poverty, from the bourgeoisie, from wealth and from social distinction. But one must credit Mrs. Catt with having gone the furthest as a leader of women as women. Despite her advancing age, she is most likely to be named when an oldtime...
...devil slips. And that my children (as the only honest man in the town said) is something. Nor was he completely without a certain sense of the fitness of things. No doubt he owes much to the fact that his earliest reading had been in the classics, Zane Gray, Jane Austin and Octavus Roy Cohen. But the significant fact remains, gentlemen, that no romantic writer of his ilk could have existed west of Worcester without feeling the subtle and pervading influence of the fin desiecle spirit on his whiskey sours. Changing his verse every ten years, and here...