Word: miller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Charles R. Miller, 69, one time (1913-17) governor of Delaware, father of Col. Thomas Woodnut Miller, onetime (1925) U. S. Alien Property Custodian; at Clementon, N. J. of heart disease. He told his host, Col. Joseph H. Baker, he desired exercise. Said Col. Baker, smiling: "Well here's a saw; go trim some of the evergreens." Mr. Miller eagerly agreed, and died of overexertion...
Soon after Marilynn Miller sued Jack Pickford for divorce, tempestuous Frenchmen raised their voices in angry protest. An investigation followed, which established that U. S. citizens made false claims of French residence after a stay of only a few weeks in a hotel or a furnished apartment; that they illegally claimed residence in a U. S. state where the conditions of divorce favored their case. For example, it was stated that many people obtained divorces on the ground of incompatibility and claimed residence in those states where such ground is sustained, no French divorce being granted that conflicts with...
This play, according to cables from Austria, will be presented in Manhattan next month when Max Reinhardt, under management of Gilbert Miller of the Frohman Company (theatrical producers), brings his entire Salzburg Company to the U. S.* Other likely plays: Dante's Death, Love and Intrigue, A Servant of Two Masters...
...runners and jumpers were last week far ahead of an Oxford-Cambridge combination-until the day of the meet at Stamford Bridge, England. The worsted was stretched at the finish line of a 100-yard dash and the U. S. men continued in the lead as Al ("Truck") Miller, 200-lb. Harvard sprinter, charged in ahead of Bayes Norton, onetime Yale man now at Oxford. But other worsteds, stretched for races of 220, 440 and 880 yards, were soon broken by Runkel of Cambridge and Brown of Oxford, Runkel winning the 220 and 440 events in quick succession. White...
...unprecedented speed of 60 miles per hour, and Sloe Eyes, his last mare, has taken her final earthly hurdle, does the old horse-lover give in to the conquering gas-buggy. By that time his son has grown romantic under the influence of the heroine (Patsy Ruth Miller) and returned to the horse tradition, leaving the house as hopelessly divided against itself as before...