Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chewers of his country will swallow. Then, the New York Daily News, first of the tabloids, was started by the two rich, hard-boiled publishers of the Chicago Tribune, Joseph Medill Patterson, Robert R. McCormick. Mr. Payne, an earnest, bespectacled Puck, was invited to become an assistant editor. He rose to fame as the Daily News leaped upward to the highest circulation in the U. S. Last year, Publisher Hearst, who had grabbed Arthur Brisbane from the World 30 years ago, lured Philip Payne to the Daily Mirror. Many a circulation war did these snarling sheetlets wage. The Mirror once...
Abie's Irish Rose-The immortal weed. At Mrs. Beam's-An English boarding house, face to face with a fascinating woman-eater...
...Wild Rose. Arthur Hammerstein's annual operetta floats along on Rudolf Friml's melodies to merited success. Wild Rose and One Little Kingdom, especially, belong at the top of the day's popular music. The play, of course, is laid in a, mythical kingdom, wherefore the princess fights the inevitable fight to reconcile love and duty, with the usual sad results; her U. S. lover acquits himself as he might be expected to before a U. S. audience. Thin comedy is compensated for by Desiree Ellinger, Joseph Santley, and sprightly dancers. But above all, there...
NUMBER FOUR JOY STREET-Appleton ($2.50). Only experts are allowed to work on Joy Street- such writers as Walter de la Mare, Lord Dunsany, Rose Fyleman, Hilaire Belloc, Compton Mackenzie, Laurence Housman, Hugh Chesterman. Mr. de la Mare's contribution concerns John Cobbler, a Wiltshire boy who was turned into a tench. Mr. Belloc, in verse, confesses himself a votary...
...team Princeton brought to Cambridge Saturday to meet a favored Harvard eleven, rose to the heights characteristic of recent Tiger outfits in Harvard encounters. Slagle, who had been held in reserve during all of the early season games, upset all the pre-game dope by starting and playing until the final minutes of play. He led the Tiger attack with his passing and running and, although he seldom got away for long gains, was a constant threat and menace to Harvard peace of mind...