Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscriber address Artist Samuel Johnson Woolf at 457 W. 123rd St., New York (home), or 253 W. 42d St., New York (studio). -En. Dislikes Follies Girls...
Since De Valera's Fianna Fail is opposed in principle to accepting any ministry in the cabinet of a regime which they detest and hope to convert into a republic sooner or later observers thought last week that a coalition government headed by Tom Johnson, leader of the Labor Party, would have most chance to supplant President Cosgrave...
When President Andrew Johnson was facing impeachment charges after the Civil War, Eddie Foy started on his career as a professional entertainer, turning handsprings in Manhattan saloons and "passing the hat" for an outdoor fiddler. When French engineers ventured to dig the Panama Canal, Mr. Foy was shuffle-dancing and tumbling before miners in the mushroom towns of the Wild West. When Theodore Roosevelt called for Rough Riders, Eddie Foy was in bright lights, a symbol of spry clowning. By the time che Kaiser had started for Paris, "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys" had be come a vaudeville...
Friends bowed, more and less impressively, for Charles Evans Hughes, Nicholas Longworth,? Simeon D. Fess, Arthur Capper, William Edgar Borah, George William Norris, Herbert Spencer Hadley, James E. Watson, Hiram Warren Johnson, Frank Bartlette Willis and many another...
...fleshy Fred Rain painting his bathroom while trying not to marry; fouling his straight young son's mind with a circumlocution on sex in flowers; preparing stuffy sermons in his smug study. Not "Old Jud" himself, the muscular college revivalist of Elmer Gantry, is more offensive than Fay Johnson, the Y.M.C.A. hearty of this book...