Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oscar Shaw. Norman Bel Geddes scenery and a tune ("Thinking of You") were, many thought, even abler ingredients. The plot, that old dodderer of musical comedies, explained how a modiste's model married a millionaire. The jokes were moldy, the dancing deft, and the vast chorus uncommonly bewitching. Imbedded none too conspicuously in the generally unwieldy proceedings is an actor named Louis John Bartels, playing his first part on Broadway since he laid a just claim to fame as the blabbering, brilliant hero of The Show...
...Rutgers University published a book in which he asserted his statistics upon Rembrandt's paintings. Last week he published a second volume which completed his findings made over a period of twelve years. Of the paintings, 40 are real Rembrandts, of the drawing, 60; of the etchings, 40. None of these are in the U. S. Said Dr. Van Dyke further: Some of these works, on the grounds of style, I attribute to Rembrandt pupils. ... In many uther cases I cannot say whose they are. Some of these etchings and drawings which have been wrongly attributed to Rembrandt...
...Yale Corporation in 1928." When he ran for Mayor of New York City against Justice William J. Gaynor in 1909, Mr. Bannard was described as "a wheel-horse."* Busy-body reporters trying to color his personality, inquired: "What is you favorite form of exercise?" The reply: "None. I tell you I'm the damnedest, most uninteresting man you ever met!" He is also, however, a onetime President of the New York Trust Co. When the Merchants' Trust was closed in 1905, he, as receiver, paid back every depositor with interest in four months. He served...
...toothless, white-haired hag, was called the Queen of the Mafia gangs. Her word was law. Dressed in a man's clothes, she was wont to ride around the country marking out victims for the Mafia. She it was who ordered murders, robberies, extortions, ambushings, torture, kidnappings. None dared disobey her commands...
...word was such that she commanded the members to marry whomsoever she should select. Without her consent none could marry. Many a match she broke. This she did in order that her followers might make good marriages, "good" meaning an accretion of wealth for this and that gang...