Word: maines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Highness may have "a talent for catastrophe," but a newsmagazine of your calibre should not overlook the fact that he also has a talent for breeding Asil Arabian Horses. From what I know, I would say that his main interests are confined to breeding the best horses in the world. His stud in Egypt and Lady Wentworth's stud in England are the only two horsebreeding establishments in the world (except the secret breeding tribes of the Arabian desert to which only the initiated few are admitted) where one can find an unpolluted strain of the blood to which...
...Palestine finance corporation, approved a budget for the ensuing year of $3,750,000 for work, $5,000,000 for buying land. At the conclusion of the meeting Baron Edmond de Rothschild of France was elected honorary president of the Council, with Dr. Chaim Weizmann of London, main spring of Zionism, as real president. Two U. S. Jews were prominent...
...house disposed of, Bishop Cannon last week hastened to Manhattan, caught the S. S. Olympic to Europe "to get as far away from politics as possible." Abroad he will attend: Universal Religious Peace Conference at Frankfurt-am-Main; Faith & Order Conference at Maloja; Life Work Conference at Eisenack. He will return in time to work in the Virginia election campaign in October...
...Irish-Creole girl of New Orleans, originally named Dolores McCord, she paraded down the main street of Galveston in the first crinoline that town ever saw. Her charms thus enhanced induced old Isaacs Menken, vocal teacher, to make her a Jewess and his bride. A memory of her first love drove her from Menken's hearth, but later gave morbid ardor to her acting of Lady Macbeth in New Orleans. In New York she became a poetess and the wife of Heavyweight Champion John C. Heenan. Her acting in Mazeppa brought her fame. This was the sensational play wherein...
Street Girl (Radio). This first venture into the movie business of Radio Corp. of America has no air of being an experiment. The principals-Jack Oakie and Betty Compson-are experienced film actors; the plot, involving jealousy in a song-and-kiss troupe, is the main staple of the current season. The tunes are like hundreds of other tunes you've heard, and the fantastic lives, childish problems, and unreal reactions of the characters belong to a type familiar to cinema-seers since 1910. A girl from one of those Graustarkian Balkan kingdoms changes the destinies of the boys...