Word: packs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pack opp my bags," he said. The Gigli secretary (Amadeo Grossi) sprang to obey. The Gigli trainer (H. J. Reilly) stepped forward with a glass of water. What would the Gigli Manhattan manager (R. E. Johnston) say to this! What would the Gigli Detroit manager (Mrs. Isobel Hurst) advise him to do? Beniamino Gigli did not know, did not care. Contract or no contract, he was going back to Manhattan...
...February there is another meeting of the Association, to which the classroom teachers cannot well go, being tied by their apron strings to the children of their communities. But the school superintendents can get off. In February they pack their bags, hold tryst, keep the Association going at its lively pace, and when they get home again make a speech telling the classroom teachers all about...
...brothers Roosevelt were sailing home last week after their natural historical expedition into Tibet and Turkestan for the Field Museum of Chicago; just as the Roosevelts' head naturalist and taxidermist, George K. Cherrie, landed at Boston with photographs of bearded, turbaned Roosevelts, with wild tales of riding surly, pack-yaks, and with first-hand news of the 750 birds and 250 animals "of great scientific value" that they had collected, including spiral-horned Ovis poll (Marco Polo sheep), goitered gazelles, shaggy ibexes, shaggier Asian bears, long-haired tigers and smaller, rarer fauna, scarce or unknown in U. S. museums...
Last week he escaped from "No. 10" to "Chequers," the spacious country house which the British Government provides as an antidote to Downing Street. There he entertained the famed Berkeley Hunt at a sumptuous breakfast set out upon long tables, whistled the Berkeley pack about him, genially called many a canine by name...
...devoted two columns of the Feb. 1 issue (p. 19) to the "organization"of some sort of anti-evolution society in this town. The man, Edward Young Clarke, who has been found only after a search from "coast to coast and from north to south,"is leading this pack of "Christians," and I am under the impression that this Edward Young Clarke is the same E. Y. C. who was formerly with the K. K. K., later convicted of violating the Mann Act in Texas, he ran off with the sister of some other villain, and fined $5,000, which...