Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later married Mrs. Leonard M. Thomas (pen name: "Michael Strange"). ?Lyric written by James John Walker, onetime Greenwich village boy, now Mayor of New York City...
...Climbers (Irene Rich). A proud Duchess at the Spanish Court in Inquisitorial times, displeases the King and is shipped off to Porto Rico. There she tries to live up to her subtitled name of "she-devil" by delicately flogging her peons, riding like Tom Mix and crossing swords with an evil-visaged bandit. Despite Dukes, Duchesses, bandits and a lost daughter, there is scant hair-raising...
...Story is told by a small boy whose name is the book's* title. Because his father is a sot, and he thinks people suspect him of knowing a lot about how Mitch Miller (the subject of a novel Author Masters published in 1920) got killed, Kit O'Brien leaves Petersburg, 111., with two of his friends. Hungry, they steal apple pie. His friends get caught, but Kit proceeds, Huck Finn fashion, down the Illinois River into the Mississippi. There on a houseboat he finds Miss Siddons, an impoverished ac tress with a disfigured face, living with a madman. When...
...vampires" who prayed on them, was a challenge ringing in his ears. So he discovered his vocation, and in the end, came to find his field and life work along the coast of Labrador, where his brave optimism, his resourcefulness, his skill and untiring devotion, have given him a name and fame now almost world-wide. Out of this vivid little book one gets the inner meaning of the well known story, told without seeming to be told, with "an artlessness concealing...
From a dabbler in the two-a-day ham-and-egg vaudeville, to a trouper in the South, to proprietor of the American Museum, and finally to owner of the great circus that now bears his name, Barnum was a Yankee, a Connecticut Yankee, to be exact, and many are the tales, of business deals that smack of the wisdom of the Nutmeg state. The reader need have no fear that he may overlook these bits of David Harum, for they are advertised, in true Barnum style, for several pages before and after the transaction...