Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...misunderstandings attendant upon it will remain. In his 1928 report Mr. Bingham quoted the figures of the total number of Harvard men, alumni and present members of the University, as 61,763. Restrictions on admission to Harvard make it likely that this figure has reached nearly its top mark. But Harvard's share of tickets in the Stadium is only 32,000, and there are hundreds of disappointed alumni each year...
...pumped down gasoline and oil through hoses, dropped food with a rope. The preliminary test worked. So the Fokker and a refueling plane set out for Los Angeles where the break-down tests of men or motors will take place. The name of the Fokker is whimsically Question Mark...
There are flippants who think of Ossip Gabrilowitsch as the little conductor with the highest collar in the world. There are others who know him better-as the Russian pianist who came to the U. S. and married Clara Clemens, Mark Twain's daughter, or as the conductor who went to Detroit and built up an orchestra there...
...manikinetic tricks to Satan's jury, Producer Belasco must have smiled to himself, for it was he, not "Dr. Magister," who taught her how to do them. A little girl from Minnesota who had played in stock in Milwaukee, she came to Manhattan and played in The Mark of the Beast. After that, Belasco got her and has had her ever since. Tiger Rose, in 1917, made her very famous; in Kiki, one of the Dean's most profitable ventures, she was a little "midin-ette." Later, she was a part Negress in Lulu Belle. Never married...
...businessman and music means nothing to me.' But more people are beginning to realize that they might as well boast in this fashion: 'Part of my brain doesn't work, hence music means nothing to me.' It is ceasing to be such a very great mark of distinction to be a lowbrow...