Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bondfield, Margaret ("Saint Maggie"), Minister of Labor, and Britain's first woman Cabinet minister, parliamentary under secretary for labor in the 1924 Labor government. So strenuous were "Saint Maggie's" hours when she worked in a draper's shop as a young girl that only once a week could she take a bath, running three-quarters of a mile to a public bath, where she had to bathe and dress in 15 minutes...
...Died. Margaret Lawrence, 39, famed comédienne, Tea for Three, Secrets, Lawful Larceny; by shooting; in her Manhattan penthouse apartment. In a bottle-strewn bedroom, a bullet in her breast, she was found by the side of her lover, Actor Louis Bennison, also shot. Police thought Bennison killed both. Miss Lawrence, who had been suspended by Actors' Equity Association for "walking out" of Edgar Selwyn's Possession, and recently reinstated, was twice married (Publisher Orson Munn, divorced; Actor Wallace Eddinger, deceased). She had two daughters, Elizabeth Munn, 14, Louisine Munn...
...spectacle of the two small, extremely stagey children choosing to remain with kind, gentle Nancy. Not even this situation satisfied Playwright Carl Henkle's taste for the archaic. He also introduced an inarticulate bumpkin who loved Nancy, who found courage to say so just before the final curtain. Margaret Barnstead played Nancy with great earnestness...
...doctrine would be a bitter pill in the throats of a typical film audience. So he tempts the crowd with a Graustarkian love affair: all about how Paul, though heir to the Claverian throne, began life as the son of a simple U. S. garage-owner-how he met Margaret Harting, the daughter of a pacifist lecturer, and loved her. Then duty called. Someone had been assassinated. He returned to Clavery and met (a) the villain, Michael, would-be usurper of the throne, whom he shoots for the mad dog of a militarist he is; (b) Princess Helen of Saevia...
Charles Knox, founder of Knox Hats, came to the U. S. from Ireland in 1830, aged 12. The New York bound ship in which he crossed the Atlantic had been blown far out of its course and finally made port at Wilmington, Del., leaving Charles, 12, and his sister Margaret, 10, stranded 118 miles from their parents in Manhattan. "How are you going to get to New York?" asked the ship captain, who wanted to put Margaret in some Wilmington household and ship Charles as a cabin boy. "We'll walk," said Charles, and they did, in two weeks...