Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richards somehow gets the very most out of any role that he is given, no matter how minor it may be, and he accomplishes this without over-acting. As much cannot be said for Mr. Remley and Mr. Elkins, the other two unlucky lovers. On the strength of their acting they entirely merit their ill fortune. Mr. Nedell, the blue ribbon winner, has little to do, but does it well...
...delineate the country according to its presidential division is very simple: Begin on the northeastern boundary of Virginia, at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, and go down the west border of Virginia straight along the northern border of Tennessee, straight west, with only minor jogs over the tops of Arkansas and Oklahoma, then straight south to the border of Texas and west again along the same border to Mexico South of this line is solid Davis. North of it, west of it, is solid Coolidge?except for Wisconsin carved out as La Follette enclave...
...painted by Leon Droll of Chicago, won for that artist the Potter Palmer prize of $1,000, while one Charles Grafly of Philadelphia was given the last large award, the Keith Spalding $1,000 medal, for his sculpture, Study of a Head of War. Many others were solaced with minor prizes which, though their greatest weight was one of honor, were yet of substance enough to keep coal in studio stoves, tea in studio pots...
...after the opening he will invigorate the exercises with new material. The first of these invigorations is now on sale. The new ingredients are the Russian Lilliputians and Mitty and Tillio, French dancers; a pair of athletes called the Athenas; and new acts for Vivienne Segal, Lupino Lane, and minor revision in the monolog of Will Rogers...
Died. Harold M. Sewall, 64, Republican National Committeeman from Maine, father-in-law of Senator Edge of New Jersey, onetime Consul General at Samoa, quondam Minister to Hawaii; in Manhattan, after a minor operation...