Word: nis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Authoress Delmar's manuscript is not illuminated with metaphor or stylistic arabesques. She writes her tawdry tale as simply as she might speak it. Daughter of show folks, onetime actress, usher, typist, she enjoys playing chess and ten nis badly, is 24, a mother. She has lived not only in The Bronx, but in Belmar, N. J., Scarsdale, N. Y. She returns from a European trip in November...
Five sets of championship ten-nis can make strong men sob., To play those five sets a man must have a sturdy heart; a stomach un-corroded with strong drink, a breath uncontaminated by cafe smoke...
...died in 1915 leaving his publishing business and nis wealth in trust to his wife and daughter. His wife died in 1921. Last week his daughter died. According to the terms of his will the trust will now be administered by trustees named by the Presidents of the Universities of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. The trustees are to sell the Star within two years-to let his old paper go into a new orbit. Both before and after the sale the income of the trust will be used to furnish Kansas City with works and reproductions of works...