Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, a Mrs. Victoria Tultric awaited her husband's homecoming, impatiently. A loud and familiar-sounding rap rattled the front door. Mrs. Tultric, impatient, fired a bullet through the door. The man she shot was not errant Mr. Tultric, but Truant Officer Thomas McCarthy calling on duty...
Rival publications, and different statisticians for the same publication, flatly contradict one another's figures in a way that puzzles the man who buys space. And so, since 1923, Editor & Publisher, journalism's trade weekly, has annually sought to furnish the most nearly accurate advertising lineage figures for a host of U. S. and Canadian newspapers, and these figures are always eagerly awaited...
...year-old gelding from the stables of the Sunshot Stock Farm owned by one Abe Bartelstein. He has won seven out of eight starts this season. Last week, with Jockey Jack Parmelee up, he won by a neck over Naishapur, and equalled the course record. Genie, son of famed Man o' War, was the favorite. He finished sixteenth...
Behind the bars of Tiajuana stand the remnants of a disappearing race-the U.S. bartender. Many a man among them will tell heart-breaking tales of better days when he served drinks at the Waldorf in Manhattan, at Boston's Parker House or at Coffee Dan's in San Francisco. Their skill confirms their stories and strong men weep gently into their old-fashioned whiskey cocktails to think such souls are passing...
...gold in town for the evening. They withdrew two miles from Tiajuana to a spot called Agua Caliente. Here they built a beautiful hotel and beside it a large and luxurious gambling casino. While the rabble is fleeing for the border from Tiajuana, the lazy rich man is beginning to dress for dinner at Agua Caliente...