Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cited by Laborite Ponsonby as an instance of "unofficial propaganda" is the deed of Miss Kate Hume of Dumfries, Scotland. In 1914 she forged and gave to the British press a purported letter from her sister, Miss Grace Hume, in which the latter was supposed to write that her right breast had been hacked off by Germans in Belgium. Since Miss Grace Hume had never been out of England and was sensitive about her breast, she denounced her sister, but not until the story had grown to national prominence...
Gripped as usual by the muscles of M. Caillaux's right eye was his monocle. He was reading. Suddenly out of the fog-a truck! Brakes screamed. The chauffeur did his best to swerve. But the long low cradling limousine crashed headon, crumpled, overturned. The monocle, gripped spasmodically at the moment of impact, shattered, terribly cutting M. Caillaux about...
...rather short and stocky gentleman, emerging in evening clothes from the ante room . . . looked neither to right nor left, took two at a time the steps leading to the stage . . . Arthur Honegger, arisen, significant, acknowledged figure of the new generation." So. last week, did H. T. Parker of the Boston Transcript appraise Boston's guest conductor. Thus are adjectives made to grow, for five years ago Honegger had been just a precocious fellow who at seven had composed two operas in the treble clef, as he knew no other, at eleven some 30 sonatas, in his twenties...
...first flop that Rickard promoted was the Tunney-Heeney fight in The Bronx last summer. Right afterward, Tunney retired, still heavyweight champion. Since it is regarded as essential that there should always be a World's Heavyweight Champion, it was necessary to discover immediately who this should be. On investigation, it appeared that there was no one good enough to fill the position adequately. Dempsey who, judged by the eminently suitable criterion of gate receipts, had never lost the heavyweight championship, was reconsidered for the honor. Frantic and slow elimination contests were held, meaning nothing. Tex Rickard, having made professional...
Follow Thru. It was only necessary to take one look at Zelma O'Neal to know that everything would be all right. Both pretty and without inhibitions, she tunefully remarked: "I Want to be Bad," illustrating her desire with stamps, wind-ups, moues, and fetching wriggles. When she fell in love, she urged her inamorato to "Take good care of yourself, you belong to me," beating him gently on the chest. So did the audience belong to her, though she abused her property by making such cynical comments as this, to a recalcitrant lover: "You can't have children...