Word: like
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black-face comedian. The Metropolitan authorities worried about letting Basso Michael Bohnen wear full, realistic black-face makeup, thought perhaps his neck should show white to reassure prejudiced observers. At the dress rehearsal the neck was white. It looked so absurd that at the performance it was blackened like the face...
Excess fat may be a disease, like appendicitis or measles, and then should not be fought by diet or massaging machines (Dr. Maxmilian Kern of Chicago...
Leopold Stokowski, proud conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, last week turned upon his applauding audience and said: "This strange beating together of hands has no meaning. To me it is very disturbing. We try to make sounds like music, and then in between comes this strange sound that you make. I am not criticizing you. I am criticizing a custom. I don't know where it originated, but probably back in some dark forest in medieval days." Delighted, the audience clapped loudly...
David Merriwether Milton, Manhattan lawyer, made known that, like his father-in-law, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., he would go in for realty operating, would perch a luxurious $3,000,000 cooperative apartment house on a bluff overhanging the East River, at the foot of Beekman Place. Atop the building. Owner & Mrs. Milton will listen to tooting tugs. see the twinkling lights of Long Island City and Astoria, from a sumptuous penthouse...
When Al Marsters suffered what looked to spectators like a twisted ankle in his Yale game, he had really hurt his back, was out for the season. Copying his injured friend's high-kneeing stride. Bill Morton showed that there is more than one way to get a bear by the tail. Dartmouth 13, Brown...