Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gramercy Park, Manhattan. Shortly before midnight he disclosed to them a plan dear to his heart. He would found an actor's club, to which would be admitted men in the varied arts, and in which the best of the writing, painting and music world might come to learn that the actor, too, is a gentleman. Mr. Booth was distressed at the slight repute in which his profession was held before the world. He would give his home to this club; his treasures of the theatre. The Players stands today in the same little house as a memorial...
...reports from overseas, full as they are of the names of Isadora Duncan. It was in Boston that she reached the height of her sensationalism, when she danced across the boards of Symphony Hall in a garb flaming and diaphanous. The not inconsiderable Socialist population of Gotham could never learn of he deportation in face of the God's-in-his-heaven, all's-right-with-the-world air with which the Boston press pounced upon the news. This blatant person had been delivered to the mercies of her beloved Russia; what an excellent fit was the punishment...
...buying through other brokers. Some weeks ago the Exchange's Committee on Business Conduct asked for his books and did not get them. An inquiry showed that Mr. Booth kept no books. The Committee could not find what customers he had, if any; nor could they learn what his assets & liabilities were. Little or nothing could be found out about him-not even what the Middle "W." in his name stood for. The New York telephone directory lists him as a lawyer. Other directories do not list him. Seat. Herman W. Booth bought his seat (on which he hardly...
...misfortune of last May. Graduates who hung their heads when it was announced that Harvard was unrepresented in the original training group of ten, and later that a Princeton "baby star" had been signed for a long term contract by the magnates of the Coast, will rejoice to learn that Harvard has not one, but many, luminaries...
Statisticans and their followers will be interested to learn that the University team outweighs the visitors. The figures for the line give an average of 187 pounds for the Harvard forward wall and 178 for the Vermont bulwark. The advantage in the backfield is by a margin of 174 to 161, while the average team weights are 182 and 172. The gross weight of the Harvard team is one ton on the hoof; the Vermonters aggregate is 110 pounds less