Word: martha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reception was at Roosevelt's last?over 10,000. In 1922 President Harding had 6,500 and got a swollen hand, while Mrs. Harding wore out three pairs of kid gloves. President and Mrs. Coolidge had 4,890 guests in 1924, and 3,900 last year. George and Martha Washington inaugurated the New Year's reception (for invited guests) in her Court at the Executive Mansion in Manhattan. Andrew Jackson first opened the reception to the public...
...play is not particularly good. Handicapped by its star, it makes mediocre entertainment. Mr. Blackmer makes the dent a pillow might if fired from a cannon instead of solid shot. The presence of Martha Bryan Allen, loveliest of our younger actresses, is a vast pictorial advantage...
...country, has earned a prize of thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars should going precise attention. True, he is not the first to remark the trend toward folklore, toward the saga which is so patent to observing eyes. But in defining as good, as strong. "Wild Geese." Miss good, Miss Martha Ostenso's first novel he professor a firm, belief in the esoteric simple, a belief which will always continue the fundament on which drama must be built...
WILD GEESE-Martha Ostenso- Dodd, Mead...
Unfortunately for those who pictured the vessel sinking off Cape Hatteras and the block of wood floating from there to Martha's Vineyard, it has been learned that the Norka has been in drydock for the past two years. Suggestions that the block of wood was used as a moving picture property have been made, but this theory has not been verified...