Word: martha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Luigi Schipa, 88, father of Tenor Tito Schipa of the Chicago Civic Opera Co.; in Lecce, Italy. News was kept from Tenor Schipa until he finished a performance of Martha. Last summer Tenor Schipa, visiting Italy, arranged a special performance for his father...
Jean Hortense Norris, widowed Manhattan Magistrate: "I, famed for my vitality, for my vigorous interest in matrimonial felicity (TIME, June 28), last week adjusted a flagrant case of impending desertion. One Martha Rosa, 20, appeared in my court charging that one Sixto Margon, 21, Negro, steward on S. S. Cuemo of the Porto Rican Line, was that day sailing for Porto Rico, intending to desert her in a crisis. I at once despatched a detective, who arrested Steward Margon just as the gangplank was being drawn up. After I had lectured him, he married Miss Rosa forthwith. I was congratulating...
...Life and Times of Martha Hepplethwaite" is the pretentious title Mr. Sullivan has chosen for his volume, this being the first, and probably the best, of the thirty-odd selections that he offers. And Martha is an extraordinary girl. She is Mr. Sullivan's stenographer, with a penchant for turning somersaults and handsprings in the office, taking dictation while dangling by one leg from a chandelier, and using her employer's purple suspenders for exercisers, with inkwells tied to the ends for weighs. You can imagine what a hard time poor Mr. Sullivan has with...
...Will you take the letter. Martha? . . Stop drumming on the table . . You're not in the mood to take a letter? . . Who told you you could go in for moods? . . Lay off moods, Hepplethwaite; leave them for your betters...
...Martha, I'll tell you what . . If you'll take the letter, I'll let you ride around the block on my tricycle. . . I'll let you ride around twice. . . Think of that! . . You can ride around trice on my twicycle . . I mean twice on my tricycle. . Well, then, I'll let you come to my circus next Saturday free, and its going to be ten pins for everybody else. . . I'll give you half this piece of chewing gum. . . And two of these keys and this, whistle and I'll let you whittle with my knife some...