Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Margalo Gillmore, daughter of Frank Gillmore (one of the founders and now President of the Actors' Equity Association), began her stage career in 1917 after a course at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She was second woman in a Scrap of Paper, The Famous Mrs. Fair, Alias Jimmy Valentine. She jumped into headlines with Richard Bennett in He Who Gets Slapped. In the last two years she has been a member of the Main Acting Company of the Theatre Guild. Unmarried, she has an apartment of her own and likes contract bridge, cats (three at present), golf, swimming...
...That President Hoover would bring Efficiency and Organization to the White House no one ever doubted. First he cleaned up the presidential desk, had removed the old green student's lamp, the ornate paper weights, the jar of smelling salts...
Keen observers suspected from the first that something was amiss, because the "scoop" on the $420,000,000 offer was given to the Associated Press. Previously the inside news track on everything connected with the second Dawes Committee has been held by the New York Herald Tribune. This paper received as an exclusive "scoop" the paramount story that J. P. Morgan and Owen D. Young would represent the U.S. in Paris (TIME, Jan. 28). By way of humble return for so great a bounty, the Herald Tribune was the only paper to print, on its first page and in full...
...Townshend of Derry County, Cork. Satirist Shaw has never read the "Essay," and he does "not disfigure books by underlining them." His practice "is to make a very light dot in the margin with a pencil-tip and note the page number on the end of a slip of paper...
...much power is being lost as ionization in the destructive air films. Naturally, the life of the cable is associated with the amount of this loss. Experiments have shown that cables which have the highest value of this ionization loss also appear to be the poorest cables. A paper on this subject was presented at the last Midwinter Convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in New York...