Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scarlet dress, in her latest Manhattan night club, sang, last week, famed Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan. She had just been acquitted by a U. S. jury of a prohibition charge. She had returned to her own world to celebrate her freedom. A brass band preceded her. Her "suckers" (patrons) rose en masse to cheer her entrance. She kissed everybody in sight. The smoky air was thick with vindictive joy. Harry Thaw, onetime maniac, hysterical with delight, jigged up and down at his table until Miss Guinan led him out on the floor to introduce him. She read congratulatory messages from...
...Gull. Anton Chekhov's play, upon which the Moscow Art Theatre rose to fame and from which it took the wings which are its symbol, is being presented for special matinees by a group directed by Leo Bulgakov, one of the Moscow group who remained behind when Stanislavsky (Konstantin Sergyeyevich Aleksyeyev) took his troupe home several years...
...friend!" Tears did not begin to take their silent course until General John Joseph Pershing rose, visibly shaken with grief, and managed to speak thus in a gruff voice which often grew husky...
...achieved quite opposite results. The rest of the sugar producing world saw a golden opportunity to make money. And while Cuban production fell from 5,125,970 tons in 1925 to 4,011,717 tons in 1928, the world crop, swelled by many a new cane and beet plantation, rose from 23,687,000 to 25,326,000. Cuba then supplied only 16% of the whole. World markets were seriously unsettled...
...rivaled Sir Joshua Reynolds as London's favorite painter. Naturally, the Sun had heard of Artist Romney, and quite as naturally of hell's-bellsing Lawrence P. Fisher. The latter is president of Cadillac Motor Co. and next-to-youngest of the six Fisher Brothers who rose from their father's Ohio blacksmithy to dominance in General Motors Corp...