Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cares about Mrs. Moscowitz of the Abie's Irish Rose team, or Judge Sabath & Wife, or the little banker's boy-in New York who runs a jazz orchestra...
Bower. Houston (pronounced Hews-ton) has waxed prosperous since the U. S. dredged the Buffalo Bayou and brought the Gulf of Mexico 50 miles northward to the city (TIME, Jan. 23); it has not succeeded in changing torrid June weather. Therefore, as the vast auditorium, seating 25,000, rose on the ruins of what had been Houston offices and stores, thoughtful citizens planned how to beguile northern Democrats into thinking the Houston climate ideal. They planned: a suggestion to all delegates that Houston fashions will demand linen suits; automatic water coolers as effective as nine melting tons of ice each...
Finally, good, easy-going Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin rose to conclude the debate with a soft-soapy appeal for TOLERANCE-tolerance of the Book, he appeared to mean. At this crux of debate, the battle of prayers-still raging across the street in Westminster Abbey-reached a climax of Evangelical appeals to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost;* while Anglo-Catholics did not scruple to additionally beseech the Virgin Mary, her mother St. Anne, and many another saint...
...asked to amuse his hosts with a specimen of song. He arose but instead of singing, delivered a brief address on his life. "Sing, sing!" shouted the bad actors. Chaliapin drew a charcoal cartoon of himself which amused his audience but did not stop their demands for song. Chaliapin rose a third time, went through the motions of an aria, puffing his chest, swinging his arms, opening and shutting his mouth like a large Russian goldfish, without making a sound. After the performance was over, he said that he could not sing for nothing because of his contracts...
Such a community, self-respecting and of a serious turn of mind, heard last week that a local boy had made good in his own home town. For Frank Ernest Gannett, long a power in Rochester by virtue of his evening paper, the Times-Union, rose to the ranks of the city's greatest, stood close beside Cameraman Eastman, when he went last week to his bankers and borrowed most or all of $3,500,000 to buy the Democrat and Chronicle...