Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...making the best time from California to New York. All along the route runners dropped out and went home. Three quit at Chandler, Okla., 1,543 miles from the start. They said they didn't believe Pyle had $25,000. When Oklahoma City gave $5,000 to Pyle, Ralph Scott, onetime manager of Red Grange, attached it. The Chamber of Commerce then refused to give the citizens of Oklahoma City a free look at the plodders, made them run across lots to a circus tent. Admission to the tent was through a turnstyle. Inside the tent Red Grange presided...
...March 12 issue with reference to Mrs. Eddy's love of dress and her daily manicure is out of place. I see no earthly reason for her going about in sackcloth and ashes and as for clean nails I was brought up to expect that in any lady. RALPH M. MEARS Charleston...
...Ralph Gregg, to be assistant chief of the U. S. Public Health Service...
...Alaska's snowy Klondike where men are after gold, gold, GOLD! The villain, of course, is named Jack Locasto (Harry Carey). He has plenty of gold and a whiskey passion for the unspeakably lovely heroine (Dolores Del Rio). But she is properly enamored of a poor but handsome prospector (Ralph Forbes), who hopes some day to give her a house with 100 windows. He suffers life and near death and blizzard, finally finds gold, comes back to save dark Dolores from the clutches of Mr. Locasto. There is a gorgeously gory fight which ends when the hero prospector hits...
...greatly regret that my brief statement of the purposes of the new field should have been accompanied by headlines and preamble which were contrary to fact, and by an editorial which was, to say the least, misleading. Very truly yours, Ralph Barton Perry...