Word: knapp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florence E. S. Knapp, first woman ever elected to public office by statewide vote in New York, was last week sentenced to 30 days in the Albany County Jail. Her crime was grand larceny. In addition, her judge said that she had "persistently endeavored to defeat the ends of justice, and to carry out her purpose she was guilty not only of perjury but of subornation of perjury...
...dilettante, Carroll knows a beautiful female body when he sees one, knows, too, how not to drape it, is well aware that W. C. Fields is a good box-office name, that Joe Frisco, Ray Dooley, Gordon Dooley, Dorothy Knapp, in one theatre, insure against empty seats. The Carroll formula is simple, the execution elaborate: sign stars, hire lovely female bodies to undulate across stage, buy a few "hot" sketches. Music is nonessential (there is but one worthy song, "Vaniteaser," in the show...
...appeared that Producer Carroll would soon have the opportunity of meeting Warden Snook once more. Owing to alleged "privileges" tendered to distinguished sojourners at Atlanta penitentiary, an investigation was being started last week, by a congressional committee. It was known that delectable Dorothy Knapp had vis ited Producer Carroll during his duress and that she had lunched at the home of Warden Snook. Both Producer Carroll and Performer Knapp would probably be called as witnesses in the forthcoming investigation...
Yesterday, "Sonny", piloted by Arthur Knapp of Princeton, crossed the finish line almost ten minutes ahead of the Yale boat, which lead the Harvard boat by over two minutes...
...Knapp had been considered a gentlewoman. She was descended from Ebenezer Hancock, brother of famed John Hancock. She had held positions of high responsibility, including superintendence of public schools and the deanship of the Home Economics College at Syracuse University. Now, grey-haired, handsomely dressed, she must go to jail...