Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill of $60 she refused to pay and two years later when she returned to St. Louis the doctor brought suit. But Gerster refused to go to court, said she was too ill. Obligingly then the good-natured judge moved court to her hotel where she sang "The Last Rose of Summer" so charmingly that he dismissed the case...
...movies: they have been living on charity since Mr. Hildebrand ran off with another woman. More talk of the heat. The crowd disperses. It is quiet except for the rumble of the subway, the bell of a fire engine, the bark of a dog. Mrs. Maurrant's daughter Rose appears with a man. He is Harry Easter, office manager. He tries to kiss Rose, but fails. He propositions her; she is too beautiful, too clever for office work. He has a friend who will get her on Broadway. All she has to do is leave home and be available...
...sits on the porch steps and Vincent Jones, taxi-driving son of the Second Floor Joneses, slides over beside her. '' . . . Say, sweetie, I'll give you two bucks if you'll let me snap your garter." He is overheard by Sammy Kaplan, who loves Rose. Kaplan makes a feeble attempt to attack Jones, but Vincent is far too strong, easily spins Sammy to the ground. Mrs. Jones appears. "Now Vincent, you mustn't do that...
Late in November Lieut. Benjamin ("Benny the Gas Boy") Mendez, U. S.-trained chief pilot of Colombia's air service, rose from the field at Rockaway Naval Air Station, L. I., to fly 4,600 miles to Bogota, capital of Colombia (TIME, Dec. 24). He expected to take four days. Last week he arrived, in another plane. He had been to Jacksonville. Havana. Puerto Barrios, Colon, Cartagena. Barranquilla, Girardot. He had torpedoed into the water at Colon, blasted into a tree at Girardot. After the first eight days he was 2.350 miles from his starting point. After the next...
...Riegels, the 175 lb. centre and captain-elect of the California football team, sat last week in the warm sun on the sidelines, with 70,000 people staring down at him and shouting. Not one of them would have changed places with him. The Rose Bowl Tournament has come to be in a sense the most significant football event of the year. At the end of each season, the best of the Eastern teams is invited to play the best team beyond the Rockies, in the Rose Bowl, at Arroyo Seco just outside of Pasadena.* This year, after the Army...