Word: mckaye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alexander Norman McKay, 21, born and bred in Pontypridd, Wales, able coal miner, sailed into New York harbor in the steerage of the White Star liner Homeric. There were 19 other immigrants abroad. These 19 were taken to Ellis Island for. examination. But Mr. McKay was landed on a pier in Manhattan and went about his business unimpeded...
...violinists in the Egyptian Theatre played another tune. . . . This is a dance hall. A piano with sinus trouble clangs for the twiddling feet of Big Jim McKay, swashbuckling prospector who picks his teeth and his sweethearts with a Colt 44. The tiny mustachioed orphan of the storm beams innocently over the shoulder of McKay's own dearest. . . . Old stuff about an endearing note which Chaplin receives by mistake. . . . Out to make his pile so that he can wed the Klondike Kitty Kelly . . . . More prospectors*. . . . The big strike; the search for the girl; the scene on board the ocean liner...
...Eastman School of Music at Rochester, N. Y., offered to present a series of programs of manuscript orchestral works by such strivers. Last week, the first of these concerts was given. The seven, the youngest 25, the oldest 35, were composers Tweedy, Weiss, Silver, Copland, Rogers, 'Porter, McKay. There were four compositions of merit. Best was the imaginative, polytonal Cortege Macabre of Composer ('opland...
Great plumbing economies were effected by passing water through scrap iron before letting it enter the pipes. The scrap iron exhausted the water's corrosive powers, latent in dissolved air. ?Robert J. McKay, International Nickel...
...speaking last night before the Boston Y. M. C. A. The speeches will be of twelve minutes' duration. The personnel of the teams is as follows: HARVARD (con) DARTMOUTH (pro) F. W. Lorenzen '28 W. B. Sleigh E. J. Metzdorf '26 F. Hurd E. A. Smith '26 W. H. McKay...