Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Hamilton Eames, brother of Actress Clare Eames, nephew of famed Mme. Emma Eames de Gogorza, onetime Metropolitan soprano; to Marian Bull, granddaughter of Ainsley Wilcox of Buffalo, in whose house the late Theodore Roosevelt took the President's oath of office...
...nine blocks from the Cleveland Public Square, Halle Bros, spent several million dollars for a pioneering building on Euclid Avenue at 13th St. This was in 1910 and not even Halle Bros, dared leave Euclid Ave., then as now the one and only Cleveland thoroughfare with a semblance of metropolitan smartness...
Diabetes. Charts of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and of the U. S. Department of the Interior showed that during 1923 and 1924 the death rates due to diabetes were 10% less than for 1922 when Drs. Banting and MacLeod discovered insulin and hailed it as a specific treatment, although no sure cure, for diabetes. Since 1924 the diabetes death rate has, increased rapidly. No doctor knows...
Combine Clara Bow, a sour moral, and "it" and you can only trust to luck Frank Strayer trusted--so this week finds "Rough House Rosie" sending thrills into the cerebral mud of local fandom at the Metropolitan...
...could present in a few words the whole story. But why be obvious? She gets her man. And she proves that chasing debutantes may be good sport, but the street huskie is the girl what rings true--if she rings at all. W. C. Fields is playing at the Metropolitan next week...