Word: maps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with Yale to be played on Soldiers Field on Commencement Day. He denies emphatically that polo is injurious to the turf, giving as instances the finest greens in the country where Army polo is played. He believes that a game on Soldiers Field would put the sport on the map, and incidentally be highly remunerative...
...discovering a household full of selfish brats in incipient stages of art and matrimony. Father, who has paid the bills for 25 or 27 years, is suddenly forced out of a job and the brat brood is penniless. Immediately there is a general rallying round. The selfish brats map out lucrative business careers on the spot, matrimony is postponed and slender savings plugged into the breach in the domestic dyke...
...diminutive canine, Nanky-Poo; "inimitable George M. Cohan," who wanted his name in the book; David Belasco, "who has done more to enrich and to advance the dramatic art of. this country than has any other single producer;" Gertrude Atherton "planted the state of California on our mental map;" Richard Harding Davis "liked to think himself the Rough Rider of literature;" "Cissle Loftus?"a nice girl and needed the money;" Irene and Vernon Castle and the founding of "Castle House;" the long legs of Vernon Castle; a Spartan War-mother and a slacking son; the Shuberts?"mere striplings, dark-haired...
...book. It is dignified in appearance, handy in size, and extraordinarily complete in content. The material is well arranged and systematically indexed so that the desired bit of information may be the more easily found. The printing is clear and pleasing, the illustrations good, and the map helpful...
...Beginning with a modest profile of the ex-Miss Rogers wearing a string of beads, the News next produced a "full length" with the subject's arms outstretched over flower urns. Her husband, her mother, her grandfather and her ex-fiancé figured also, as well as a map of the Count's alleged dominions. Next day "Millicent" appeared in Hindu costume, as well as with her ex-fiancé and in several other poses; while there were a number of photo-graphs from the movie The Queen of Sin in which the Count was purported to have...