Word: los
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week General Adolfo de la Huerta, once for a brief time Provisional President of Mexico, now in bitter exile at Los Angeles, Calif., said: "I lament the passing of Obregon, because I would have liked to have had him live long enough to pay for his many sins...
...leading lady, attempted to make a speech but swooned when prevented and was later discovered to have taken too much veronal. At last the theatre was darkened, the crowd went home, the policemen made statements and the reporters wrote stories, in the case of the enraged reporter for the Los Angeles Examiner, on ". . . today's developments in the clash between purveyors of dramatic filth and the clean-minded majority of San Franciscans...
...James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney* from third grade to second grade detective in the New York City Police Department, from a salary of $2,500 to $2,750; because he had aided in the capture of a onetime convict who was wanted for a series of bold hold ups in Los Angeles...
Efrem Zimbalist, violinist husband of Singer Alma Gluck, had a reunion last week with his favorite violin-a rare 18th century Cremona, made by famed Guadagnini, worth some $25,000. The instrument was stolen a year ago from Mr. Zimbalist's dressing room in a Los Angeles concert hall. The thief was captured when he tried to sell his distinguished booty in Chicago. After being shipped to Los Angeles to be used as evidence, the violin was addressed to Mr. Zimbalist in Australia. It missed him there and missed him in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Calcutta, Bombay, etc., Chicago...
Arriving by air in Los Angeles last week for a series of eight concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, Albert Coates, famed English orchestra leader, delivered a note on his methods of conducting: "I find that by wearing huge white cuffs and using long sweeping motions, I am able to exact a greater sympathy and feeling from the musicians who are playing for me. . . . Musicians can follow shirt cuffs better than an almost invisible baton...