Word: los
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bulletins ablaze with declaration. Also eight bead-eyed press agents and William Hale Thompson III, more commonly known for his bulk and his battering dominion over Chicago politics as "Big Bill." They were going out among the people of the cities of Minneapolis, Omaha, Denver, Cheyenne, Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Emporia, Topeka, Kansas City. As early as Sept. 20, they would all (except the pamphlets, posters, bulletins) be back in Chicago to "superintend" the Tunney-Dempsey prize fight. In the interim Mayor Thompson planned to propel his hulking, ruddy figure into national politics by "preaching the doctrines...
Novelist Paul Jordan Smith? of Los Angeles never meddled with the brushes of his wife, Sarah Bixby Smith, portrait painter. He liked her work, was content to stick to his pen while she stuck on her pigments...
...Los Angeles critics, reviewing a local art show, cast disdainful glances at an exhibit by Mr. Smith's wife, later tapped out on their typewriters with long, nervous fingers the snippy opinion that it was "distinctly of the old school." On reading this, Mr. Smith saw red, turned radical with a vengeance. He daubed upon a canvas the weirdest monstrosity conceivable to his infuriated imagination. It showed a crazily proportioned South Sea Island female, mouth crammed to oozing with banana, holding aloft a half-devoured piece of the fruit. In the background gaped a skull. Having splotched every color...
...seriously have the Modernists begun to take Pavel Jerdanowitsch that Paul Jordan Smith decided that the artist must die. According-ingly he exposed his duality through the columns of the Los Angeles Sunday Times. His chief delight seems to be that France, whence final decrees on the vague modern estheticism emanate, fell headlong Into his trap...
...object of a request by Vice Admiral Josiah Slutts McKean, U. S. N., to the Los Angeles district attorney, to prosecute "this woman" for adopting for herself and followers evangelical uniforms resembling those of U. S. Navy officers. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, flying from Denver to Pierre, S. Dak., described a circle over Greeley, Col., and passed out of sight. Soon Greeleyites saw a speck returning, wondered if it might be Colonel Lindbergh, again, saw it as a bird which, after it, too, had circled Greeley, was described by an Associated Press correspondent as a "giant" golden eagle...