Word: places
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Prof. Brown nominated, the Republicans proceeded to clinch the alliance by naming R. Walter Dickenson, an old-line Republican, for Lieutenant Governor. The anti-Smith Democrats were expected to adhere to this candidacy immediately, having left the second place on their ticket open for that purpose...
Editor Doubleday's first announcement was to say that World's Work would revert to First Editor Page's principles. He promised that its oldtime "March of Events" section would again take its place in the front pages. Admitting that the magazine had "fallen by the wayside," Editor Doubleday promised renewed vigor, interest, progressiveness under his leadership. Also he told of two biographies soon forth-coming-one of the late great Myron T. Herrick, one of Banker-Ambassador Henry Morgenthau. When a new caddy joins the caddy-shed gang at the Piping Rock Club on Long Island...
Ponselle Company. From Old Orchard, Me., takeoff place for trans-Atlantic flights, came report of an All-Star Grand Opera to be organized by Carmela Ponselle, onetime Metropolitan contralto, sister of Soprano Rosa Ponselle. Miss Ponselle announced an opening at Manhattan's Metropolitan in the fall; a tour of the East, South, Midwest...
Moving only at the legal snailpace, Prague automobiles chugged leisurely through the streets. Raging policemen vainly tried to speed them up. Prague chauffeurs stoutly refused to break the law. Travelers missed their trains, traffic tangled in market place, stalled on bridges. The chauffeurs, enjoying themselves hugely, continued to bump slowly over the cobblestones. At nightfall gleeful Prague taxi drivers considered the old speed laws as good as repealed...
Lewis Browne, famed Manhattan Rabbi-author (This Believing World, That Man Heine) was long offended by ponderous Manhattan Telephone books which require weary thumbing, peering. Shrewd, he adopted "Zzyz" as a nom de telephone, secured last place in the book. But his shrewdness brought publicity and publicity brought imitation. The last name in new telephone books about to be issued is not Lewis Browne Zzyz but R. Cantarrana Zzyzz. The usurper is Ramon Cantarrana, young Cuban, onetime sugar broker, last week honeymooning in Cuba...