Word: janes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little room in Queens, New York, 12-year-old Jane Ruby lay ill of pneumonia. Near her bed four newborn spitz puppies squirmed in a box. Outside, several laborers were repairing the street, among them a tall, dignified old man of 75 named Lawrence Smith, whose white mane and long white mustache seemed to betoken a distinguished past. In & out of the Ruby abode pranced a black spitz bitch named Fluffy, raising her family, amusing the sick girl, bringing companionship into the life of old Laborer Smith. Then one day last week Covetousness reared its ugly head...
Fluffy disappeared. Jane Ruby tossed, her fever rose. Four spitz puppies whined with hunger. To the Jamaica police station went frantic Mrs. Ruby. There she found a kind-hearted detective named Horace Holden. Off went Horace Holden on a dog hunt. A day's sleuthing brought him to the room where Lawrence Smith lived. There was Fluffy. Horace Holden bundled Lawrence Smith and Fluffy in the back seat of his automobile, set out for the Ruby house...
...Punch & Judy theatres were set up by tail-coated, gold-buttoned lackeys. The contestants appeared: a M. Jane, a M. Robert Désarthis. M. Jane, a modernist, introduced into his performance such persons as Charlie Chaplin and Bicot, the French cinema comedian. MM. les Sénateurs and their children would have none of him. Puppeteer Désarthis, an entrepreneur who had already had many a successful season farther south in the Pare de Montsouris, triumphed...
Through the Years, Thirteen years ago Miss Jane Cowl wrote herself a play about an old gentleman whose beauteous bride had been murdered by a thwarted suitor on her wedding night. The old gentleman, growing testier with the years, finds that his niece is in love with the long-dead murderer's son. He almost breaks up this romance, but the War and his advanced age finally thaw his hatred. Thereupon, by a sort of reverse Peter Ibbetson arrangement, his deceased sweetheart comes down a moonbeam, to" take him away with...
...Showman Lee Shubert, in Manhattan, of a glandular ailment; Banker Paul Moritz Warburg, in Manhattan, of a "breakdown of the eye nerves"; Jane Addams, famed social worker, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, recovering rapidly from an operation for ovarian cyst; Cinemactress Marjorie White, in Philadelphia, of severe injuries suffered in an auto crash; Cinemactress Pola Negri, in Santa Monica, Calif., following a critical operation for an intestinal obstruction; Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie of Nevada, of a broken collarbone suffered during his morning canter, when his mount stumbled and fell on him; Biographer Giles Lytton Strachey, of paratyphoid fever; Winston Leonard...