Word: regular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There he sketched passers-by on the streets, charged two pins for seats at plays in his cellar, made $3.75 by playing the harmonica in a public hall at prices of 15 and 25 cents. With a recommendation from Phineas Taylor Barnum, a family friend, he secured his first regular part, that of an aged Negro, in a melodrama at the old Philadelphia Museum (1877). He has since appeared in 325 plays, directing 33 of them. He was leading man for Mme. Modjeska (see p. 44), once supported Edwin Booth. His daughter, Cornelia Otis Skinner, is a famed monologist...
...first regular game of the season, the Harvard Freshman soccer team repeated last year's performance by defeating the Dean Academy eleven by a score of 3 to 1 on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon...
...Kansas. It will be given in charge of R. B. Bell '30, vice-president of the club, and Max field Parrish, who are planning to fly it to Boston Muller Field in Revere will be the temporary quarters of the new biplane until hangar accommodation are ready at its regular home in the Boston airport. The Flying Club at a date to be announced in the near future will hold its bi-annual competition for membership...
Aspirants for membership in the club who have been unable to report up till today may still try out after the regular rehearsals on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings...
...Congress: He is about as regular in his votes as a Democrat can be. He voted for tax reduction and flood control in 1928, for the Jones law and the 15 cruiser bill in 1929. He voted in series for the three farm relief bills in recent sessions, for radio control, for the Boulder Dam, against reapportionment. He is now fighting the tariff bill...