Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's health even included freedom from his annual rose fever. ¶Cook Ernest Gilpin, who fries, broils, bakes the President's fish, was called to defend himself in Milwaukee against his wife's charges of cruelty and desertion. Cook Gilpin stayed at Brule, let the court fix a $12-per-week separation allowance...
...Whiffen, John Drew, Pauline Lord. People loved it, forgot about it and flocked to the new musical comedies. Now it has been made into a film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and called The Actress. The director, Sidney Franklin, has handled it tenderly. Norma Shearer,* though not the ideal Actress Rose Trelawny who sneezed lovingly in the Gower drawing room, has acquired a little of the oldtime sauce. O. P. Heggie did well as Grandfather Gower...
...circus was allowed to proceed to Ogdensburg, where it had missed a $15,000 "gate" and was nearly late for the next scheduled performance. After the circus folk had left their cars, Federal inspectors stationed at Ogdensburg made a fresh search, ripping, probing, thoroughgoing. The number of bottles found rose to 30,000, filled eight trucks...
...industry. The profits reach $1,500,000 per annum. Credit for bringing the "racket" to its Chicagoan perfection belongs largely to Timothy D. ("Big Tim") Murphy-who last week became the late Timothy Murphy. A towering burly who relied largely upon his fists in his hard-shooting environment, he rose to be a political power through the railroad labor unions. Then, with gunmen at his command, he pursued the "racket" of organizing other unions. Percentages of the dues kept "Big Tim" and his pretty-doll wife in style. But evidently someone else needed the percentages from the cleaners and dyers...
...might confuse the unaccustomed visitor at the penthouse of the fashionable Manhattan apartment house at 570 Park avenue. In the early morning of a day last week, they confused the tenant of the penthouse. British-born. 35-year-old H. Gordon Duval, publisher of The Club-Fellow, society weekly, rose early to tend his shrubs. He intended to open the bathroom door. But he opened the elevator door instead. He fell the length of the shaft, 14 stories, to instant death...