Word: plum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hazen's school at Pelham Manor, N. Y., to join a stock company playing in Washington, D. C. Later she supported Lowell Sherman, Pauline Lord, Lenore Ulric. She translated La Tendresse from the French, produced it herself and played the lead. She was in The Devil's Plum Tree in Los Angeles when Emil Jannings requested that she take a screen test, and picked her for Sins of the Fathers. She says she likes riding and swimming, but she stays indoors a lot. She spends her holidays in France but has never acted there. Her next sound-film...
Unpleasant little things may have afflicted Massachusetts Republicans on Election Day, but national good fortune has its redeeming features. And so "the political plum tree," announces a news despatch in a Boston Paper, will he loaded down with "2000 luscious jobs" when the federal census is take in 1930. Most of the workers will receive only from $80 to $200 for two weeks work, but for those who are more deserving, there are a number of "very fat" positions as supervisors. Evidently the only question worrying the leaders of the Grand Old Party in the Bay State is just...
...Theresa Schwarz, village belle; in Sotine, Jugoslavia. There were 2,750 invited and uninvited guests who consumed, during nine days and nights of celebration, six cows, 16 calves, 600 chickens, 300 turkeys, 20,000 quarts of beer, 10,000 quarts of wine, 200 quarts of plum whiskey, then they fell into haystacks, slept two days and two nights...
...love to him, orders him to write her a script. He escapes to New Mexico. She pursues with a sheriff. In self-defense he signs a rival producer's contract, and marries a sub-star from Kansas City, to the luxurious jingle of magnificent jewels, gilt-edged limousines, plum-colored footmen, in short−Hollywood. The author handles his glittering incredible material with staccato brilliance...
...Dark Ages of the College. The original tree was the "Liberty" or "Rebellion" tree which stood in front of Hollis and around which the riotous sophomores of "Rebelliad" notoriety circled in the light of the bonfire. The spread might be said to antedate the famous ban on "plum cake" in 1693. For many a year Harvard graduating classes planted Ivy shoots in the unpropitious soil of the Yard. Dancing on the green was a favorite pastime, and the confetti battle is an indirect by-product of the fighting about the historic tree. Furthermore, the Class of 1838 was the first...