Word: namee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ormiston, adept operator of the Angelus Temple radio, unaccountably absent for some weeks, was likewise present at Los Angeles last week, but was not communicative as to where he had been. His wife recently sailed for Australia after filing divorce papers in which the name of Evangelist McPherson is bruited to be conspicuous...
This summer, Carl Maria von Weber has been dead a hundred years, but his name is much remembered. "There never was a more German composer than thou . . . The Briton does thee justice, the Frenchmen admires thee, but only the German loves thee."* In Germany, they are talking, singing, playing, reading Weber. Even during his lifetime, he and Bethovenšwere Germany's most popular composers. Weber's melodious songs influenced Wagner and his polonaises inspired Chopin...
...sedan parked by the shore, another woman sat holding a bundle baby-wise; she got into the car, a coat was thrown over her head, a sickly sweet odor sickened her. . . . She woke somewhere in a cot at dawn. Two men stood over her. One of them was named Steve. The woman's name was Rose. They told her that she could go free as soon as her mother (Mrs. Minnie Kennedy) or her congregation raised $500,000 ransom. . . . (Later version...
...Sesqui-Centennial Exposition, to a banquet in Manhattan where they presented a testimonial scroll to North Pole Flyers Byrd and Bennet, saw French Legion of Honor crosses (Chevalier) pinned on the chests of their President, King Woodbridge, and their past President, Lou E. Holland. They changed their name from "Associated Advertising Clubs of the World" to "International Advertising Association," re-elected King Woodbridge president, elected Francis H. Sisson (vice-president of the Guaranty Trust Co.) treasurer, Rowe Stewart (business manager of the Philadelphia Record) secretary. They raised the dues of sustaining members to $2 yearly (from $1.50), declared Denver their...
...used them to build up a law practice of $75,000 yearly. Only if he were permitted to apply them to big business would he accept the presidency of the Federal Steel Co., which he organized for J. P. Morgan Sr. in 1898. "You can select the directors, name the executive committee, choose your officers and fix your salary," Morgan told...