Word: laura
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial...
Sued for annulment. Mrs. Anna Laura Barnett, of Los Angeles, wife of Jackson Barnett, multi-millionaire Okla homa Indian, ward of the U. S. Government; by the U. S. on behalf of its protegé. The U. S. alleges that by the use of ''petting . . . seductive smiles" Mrs. Barnett kidnaped her husband, married him twice (in Kansas, and in Missouri) in expectation of the $500,000 gift of the government authorized by Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall for Barnett...
...those who like their drama more or less straight, who go to the theatre with a serious purpose, Sidney Howard has written, and the Theatre Guild has produced, "The Silver Cord", now on the board of the Wilbur Theatre, with Laura Hope Crews, as in New York, heading a capable cast...
Five million dollars of the money extracted by John D. Rockefeller from Pennsylvania's oil-bearing substrata were last week applied to perpetuate the surface grandeur of 600 square miles of the Appalachian chain far south of Pennsylvania. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial fund announced that it had underwritten half of the $10,000,000 fund sought for the Great Smoky Mountains National park. Public subscription and the legislatures of North Carolina and Tennessee had provided most of the other $5,000,000 required to buy what will be the outstanding national park in the eastern...
...sailed for France, she put her slim young legs into a soldier's uniform, but forgot the belt. When the pants slipped, the audience squealed. Doughboys may have shooting pains when they see the army scenes, but picture patrons will deem eye-worthy this implausible, happy comedy with Laura La Plante, pretty, funny, spontaneous as a sneeze...