Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Biograph studio. Lillian Gish had left Massillon, Ohio, to go on the stage with her sister Dorothy. As a fairy in The Good Little Devil she was lifted across the stage by a wire which broke one night and dropped her on the floor. She burst into tears, later rewarded with a salary which gave each trembling drop the literal value of a pearl...
Revues also have many peculiarities, some of them absurd. Among the latter are somewhat naked chorus girls, most burlesques of Strange Interlude, Frankie and Johnny contortionists, and the later works of Roger Wolfe Kahn. These J. P. McEvoy does not snub...
...able Dr. Julius Klein of the U. S. Dept. of Commerce. He was recalling the ancient and modern history of the commodity of rubber. Columbus, exploring the island of Hispaniola, was the first to see natives playing with balls which seemed to bound miraculously to Heaven. Three centuries later, Chemist Joseph Priestley advised his fellow Englishmen that the miraculous substance would erase pencil-markings, might well be called "rubber." It was only 100 years ago that a Scotchman named Mackintosh dissolved rubber in naptha and perpetuated his name in an overcoat. And in 1839, U. S.-born Charles Goodyear dropped...
...good schools. As a graduate of the Western University of Pennsylvania (now University of Pittsburgh), he had gone first to the office of his lawyer uncle, famed David Reed of Pittsburgh. Five years of study and he was ready, in 1877, to form a partnership with Philander C. Knox, later U. S. Senator, later Secretary of State...
...Later in the week, at New Haven, the Oxford students debated with students from Yale. The subject: Resolved: That This House Believes that the Best Life is the Public Life...