Word: porter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture of angels wrestling in a vacuum. Such tolerant and able academicians as John Sloan (President of the Independent Society), Walter Pach and A. S. Baylinson- such earnest and successful strivers as O. Richard Reid, Negro artist, who worked his way through art school as a waiter and porter, and as Julia Kelly, who came untutored to the exhibition ten years ago and has recently got into the Luxembourg-leavened the works of their fantastic fellow members. New Yorkers came and stared-and went away to wait for the circus...
...last to its grave, a silver-haired gentleman of broken but distinguished appearance made his way from the Grand Avenue Hotel of Enid, Okla., to the corner drugstore. He purchased lilac perfume and headache powders, enough to keep his head steady on "a long trip." Next day the hotel porter thought he heard a groan through the locked door of the old gentleman's chamber. The door was burst in time for a doctor and two others to hear a stertorous voice say: "I am--am--John Wilkes-- Booth. I killed--killed--Abraham --Lincoln--the--best--best...
Died. James B. Newsome, 76,* oldest Pullman porter; in Chicago. He had traveled over 6,000,000 miles in Pullman cars, since 1870, without ever having been complained against. His motto was, "Never argue with a fool, humor him." Buffalo Bill once gave...
Near Port Jervis, N. Y., lives one Marcus Porter, a farmer. Farmer Porter is renowned throughout Orange County for his calf. It is a fat calf, smooth and perfectly formed, but most of all remarkable for the fact that it is absolutely hairless. Last week Farmer Porter was offered $700 for his calf, which is the only one of its kind that has ever been seen in the district. He refused...
...center the Canadians have a good roving pivot. He has an uncanny trick of opposing attacks with a deceptive poke-check. At defense Toronto has two effective and apparently tireless skaters. Both have played in every game without a relief. Porter is rangy and the fastest man on the Varsity squad. When he takes the puck he is the hardest man to stop, and almost invariably carries it the length of the ice. Porter is additionally valuable for he is rarely off his feet, being more than ordinarily clever at jumping sticks Wright at right defense does not stand...