Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile an airplane zoomed away from Manhattan bearing the Show Girl script for Miss Stone to learn while crossing the country. It arrived in Los Angeles just three hours after her train had departed eastward. There upon Will Rogers took to an airplane, pursued the train to an outlying station, dropped the script to Miss Stone who caught it on the fly. In her drawing room, as the train moved on, she began memorizing lines, practicing tap steps, after eating cautiously, with an eye to health...
...week after Ruby Keeler's collapse, Dorothy Stone was in Manhattan, ready for Show Girl. Ruby Keeler was operated on. The surgeons made no other state ment. In the interim, Understudy Doris Carson, 17, blonde, had stepped from the chorus, performed ably...
...reporters anxious to gather material on the sayings and actions of assembled geniuses. As each wore a large identification tag bearing the name of his state, they soon found this an easier means of appellation than remembering proper names. "Oregon" compared notes with "Maryland"; "New Jersey" told "Kansas" about Manhattan, for "New York" himself was from Utica, had never seen New York City. Soon they decided to form a club, "The Edison 49ers," to meet every ten years...
Still ignorant of the winner, the "49ers" went to Coney Island that night, and then on a sight-seeing trip through Manhattan. The Edison staff, cautious gentlemen, advised leaving watches at home and taking no more than...
...first heard he won and lifted him to their shoulders, Winner Huston was the center of attention. It was learned that he was interested in marine biology, did not smoke, had never been a Boy Scout. When the boys boarded the Mayor's yacht Macom for a tour of Manhattan, reporters surged around Winner Huston, confident of a "chatty" interview that would tickle their public. They were disappointed and commented on the Lindberghian attitude he maintained toward them. Asked his answer to one part of the test he calmly said, "You may not ask me that question...