Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan the club owners of the American and National Leagues held their annual meeting with Commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in the chair. In many hours of the sort of conferential argument known as bag-punching they discussed a point...
...shall be able to have a personal talk with Stimson. I have known Stimson intimately for nearly 30 years...
This is no rogues' gallery, though with another guide it might have seemed so. Here are the case histories of 15 women whom Author Theodore Dreiser has known, pondered over and laboriously written about. Conscientious and truthful according to his lights, Author Dreiser tries to give a complete report; in the oblique way in which such attempts often work out, he succeeds in showing himself as one of the most sympathetic of inquiring reporters...
Perceiving Funnyman Rogers' success, Funnyman Eddie Cantor, also of the Follies, and Publisher William Randolph Hearst, last week made known that Cantor would comment daily on the news through Bell Syndicate. To show how he could newscrack, Funnyman Cantor issued the following...
Last week through the bare boles of the trees, past the stocky, red-brick buildings of Pomfret School, a sombre hearse made its way. As it must to all men, Death had come to Headmaster William Beach Olmsted, whom Pomfret boys have affectionately, awesomely known as "Mr. O" for 32 years. Pomfret boys knew that he was not leaving the school as he had found...