Word: rods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vilma Banky, Hungarian cinemactress, wife of Cinemactor Rod La Rocque, last week became a U. S. citizen...
...contended that Miss Berger had saved Rod La Roque some $24,000 tax payments on a $182,779 income in 1927. Other of her clients were William Haines and Dorothy Mackaill...
...more than anyone else, made those two letters a symbol of accuracy and impartiality, died, last week, in his Manhattan home, with his wife and daughter at his bedside. He was 80 years old. He had outlived his two sons, had lived "from the lightning rod to the radio," as he said last year. He had been fighting death since Christmas Day. The only book he ever wrote was Fifty Years a Journalist. But his monument, the Associated Press, is a great unbound volume, an unceasing history attuned alike to hamlet and metropolis...
...Victoria Childs is a onetime secretary of Mr. William Childs. They were but recently married (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928). In the background looms the corporate figure of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which is rumored to be the rod and staff of the anti-Childs faction...
...Miss Banky played first with Ronald Colman, then with Rudolph Valentino, then again with Colman, always with Colman so that her "public" was shocked and even lessened when, a year and a half ago, in the most pompous and expensive wedding ever arranged in Hollywood, she was married to Rod La Rocque. The Shopworn Angel is the silly title of a sophisticated and entertaining story about a Texas rookie who is always being kidded because he has no nerve with girls. When a Manhattan policeman stops a Rolls-Royce and tells the chauffeur to take the soldier to the ferry...