Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Golfing v. Flying. When the seventh plane within a month landed and tore up their golf course, members of the Old Westbury Golf Club next to Roosevelt Field, L. I., became actively vexed. They refused to let the plane take off, until they learned that it belonged to Curtiss Flying Service instead of to Roosevelt Flying Corp., the unintentional depredations of whose flyers induced the Old Westbury players to start building a 103-ft. barrier around their grounds (TIME, July...
Thou wert fair in the fearless old fashion, And thy limbs are as melodies yet, And move to the music of passion With lithe and lascivious regret. What ailed us, O gods, to desert you For creeds that refuse and restrain? Come down and redeem us from virtue, Our Lady of Pain...
...greatest poet," Algernon Charles Swinburne in the above lines described and addressed his friend and mistress, a U. S. woman, the late famed Adah Isaacs Menken. In her the poet was pleased to see a Pagan Virgin Mary, coming to crush the new, romantic Christianity, to revive old, lustful paganism...
...Irish-Creole girl of New Orleans, originally named Dolores McCord, she paraded down the main street of Galveston in the first crinoline that town ever saw. Her charms thus enhanced induced old Isaacs Menken, vocal teacher, to make her a Jewess and his bride. A memory of her first love drove her from Menken's hearth, but later gave morbid ardor to her acting of Lady Macbeth in New Orleans. In New York she became a poetess and the wife of Heavyweight Champion John C. Heenan. Her acting in Mazeppa brought her fame. This was the sensational play wherein...
...Buddy" Warner, 20 months old, was placed by his mother in a box atop a seven-foot pole. For him was claimed the infant record. Time: one hour...