Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman largely responsible for Virginia's new roads is another exemplar of the way politics can keep its breeding, and again Lady Astor's remark was a neat compliment. The road-builder was her host and distant relative, Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia...
...does the fatherly Times condescend to publish "features." Cartoonist Marcus regularly does portraits for the theatrical section and cartoons on leading topics in season. He is one of the few living cartoonists who was born and raised in Manhattan. His most famed compositions were made during the War?"The Road to Yesterday" (War dragging Europe back to Barbarism) and "Damn the torpedoes?go ahead" (quoting Admiral Farragut at Mobile Bay). His "pals" are Cartoonist Cliff Sterrett ("Polly and her Pals") and Editor Bertie Charles Forbes of Forbes' Magazine, with whom he plays checkers. Cartoonist Marcus used to work...
...Harvard Club of Boston has added still another scholarship to its list of awards. Eugene Edwin Record '32 of 53 Beaconsfield Road, Brookline is announced as the holder for the coming academic year of 1928-29 of the sixth Harvard Club Scholarship...
...cotton-wool, but upon the hero's efforts to avoid castration. The hero is the son, born in early wedlock, of the Grand Eunuch. Not wishing to be his father's successor, he flees the royal city in company with his wife, Chee-Chee. On the road, they are beset by Tartars, monks and brigands who beat the hero and take Chee-Chee off-stage for purposes which can be guessed. Finally the Grand Eunuch catches up with his son and prepares to have him fitted for high office; but a friend of Chee-Chee...
...HIGH ROAD-Lonsdale wit leading to an unhappy crisis in the career of a stage star who has fallen in love with a lord-played perfectly by Edna Best and others (TIME, Sept...