Word: nora
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Specimen Great Moments. "He ['Big Boy'] felt he had known her [Nora] always...
...Story. It seems there were two Irish people, Larry O'Shea and his sister. The sister was called Nora. She had mothered the shpalpeen from breechcloth to long pants, and when he got off on a fine big ranch in Arizona she kept writing him to say his prayers and be a good, happy boy. He wrote back that he was all that, and what a grand gentleman was the Mr. Morgan he worked...
...Nora journeyed to Arizona ana found Mr. Morgan going in for drink and devilment. Larry was carrying on with gun-smugglers. Some black villains (including Injun Pete) were getting Mr. Morgan's ranch away from him, simply because he had no good woman to be good and happy for. All the kindhearted cowboys cheered when Nora, with her dear smile and heart of gold, helped Mr. Morgan save his inheritance and married him. Larry repented of his bad ways, just before he was shot...
...France after the armistice, who is bagged as the 14th guest at a gold-plate dinner of superstitious, rich Americans. He disrupts the party, in accepted operetta vein, with goofy behavior. Eventually he performs a rowdy dance with Ethel Shutta, the latter seeming, in looks and behavior, to be Nora Bayes stretched to the nth degree...
...Married. Nora Bayes (real name Dora Goldberg), actress, to Benjamin L. Friedland, garage man; by Captain, Herbert Hartley, on board his ship, the Leviathan, en route for Europe. He is Miss Bayes' fifth husband. The others : 1) C. A. Gressing, Chicago business man; 2) Jack Norworth, actor; 3) Harry Clarke, onetime dancing partner; 4) Arthur Gordon, actor. She has been once a widow, thrice divorced...