Word: latters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city management has, however, produced a smaller majority for Manager Hopkins. Last week he won by a scant 3,000 votes after Maurice Maschke, Ohio's National Republican Committeeman, had come to the support of Mr. Davis. Boss Maschke blamed Mr. Davis for their defeat. Had the latter promised the public not to run again for mayor himself, the plan would have won, felt Boss Maschke. A mathematician, Manager Hopkins on election night calculated that if his margin of victory continued to dwindle in the same ratio at future elections, he would be voted out of his job-which...
Murray Anderson's Almanac is a happy though pretentious volume of which the first illuminated pages cast scorn upon the antiquities of the U. S. theatre and the latter, through the agencies of Jimmy Savo, Trixie Friganza, Roy Atwell and Fred Keating, celebrate in the most conventionally spectacular manner the excellencies of the contemporary revusical. Whatever may be the faults of the contemporary revusical, such entertainments usually profit from the services of a superlative clown, and Jimmy Savo is such...
...romantic details: the side overlooking Central Park will consist of a 30-story, 1,200-room apartment hotel to be operated by "one of the most famous hostelries of Paris." The frontage on Broadway will consist of a 65-story office building. The first three floors of the latter will be occupied by stores and showrooms of French shops and industries...
...When criticized I had to choose whether to disclose the telegrams and actually embarrass the Committee or keep still and take punishment. Good sportsmanship dictated the latter course...
...almost gave her a trimming but Miss Cross finally found the chalk-lines and won, 6?3, 3?6, 6?3. Mrs. B. C. Covell and Mrs. Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, runners-up at Wimbledon, continued the visitors' lessons in doubles play for Little Helen's benefit. The latter's partner, Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. 25 times a champion, needed no such instruction, but the final score was 6?2, 6?1 in favor of England...