Word: offs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sherriff, 32, dark, slender, taciturn, was an insurance broker. He knew little of playwriting but he said he would try. The only drama he knew was the War. He had enlisted at 17 and emerged a second lieutenant. He sat down and wrote the story of a dugout in which...
Buckaroo. "With a cast of 60," the billboards announce proudly. That may be the trouble. Getting a cast of 60 on and off the stage is a task in itself. By the time it is accomplished in this play little time is left for the plot.
The next morning everything was arranged. The dowager Countess agreed to meet "those terrible Canadians." The new Earl drove to his castle in the village hack, midst exploding railway torpedoes set off by the tenants, and there at the castle door stood a mournful butler in livery with a little...
John D. Rockefeller Jr. last week wiped the village of Eastview off the map of New York, by outright purchase of that once flourishing Colonial hamlet on the outskirts of Tarrytown. Mr. Rockefeller paid more than $700,000 for the privilege of ousting 46 families, so that the new main...
When a linotype operator makes an error he has to complete that line of type before he can make a new line. The easiest thing for him to do is to run his fingers down the first two vertical rows of his keyboard. The result is the emergence of a...