Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect was almost electrical. The conference was, so to speak, stampeded and forthwith, almost as one man, the members rose to cry "aye" to the motion proposing that women of 21 should receive the vote. Irate Tories cursed...
When the curtain rose last week at the Colonial on what was to be the final performance of "Pardon Me," and the opening chorus sang "Stranded," the words came more from the heart than do most musical comedy lyrics. All the world being divided in two parts, to wit, Broadway and other places, the cast was stranded in the rural half. And there was no golden-winged "angel" hovering near. Their fears melted when Actors' Equity met their immediate needs and in addition bought them tickets for New York...
Last year periodical announcements appeared of previously obscure persons who rose to merited fame and prominence by excellence in such arts as calling pigs and eating pan cakes. What seems to be the most recent addition to the number of domestic accomplishments by which glory may be achieved is that of husband-calling. A worthy matron from somewhere west of Boston has recently reached the limelight through her ability to enunciate, with whatever inflection of firmness of fervency is appropriate, the word "Albert...
...Dewart of the New York Sun, also General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press; also Editor Carr Van Anda of the New York Times, Julian Starkweather Mason of the New York Evening Post, H. S. Pollard and John H. Tennant of the New York Evening World and Marc Rose of the Buffalo News; also Editorial Writers Walter Lippmann (World) and Rollo Ogden (Times); also Vice President Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun. Among notable absentees was Editor Arthur Brisbane of the New York American, chief of the Hearst press. Mr. Brisbane was in Albuquerque, N. M., that evening...
Overnight Lake Constance in Switzerland rose 15 feet as the upper reaches of the Rhine poured in its roaring torrent of muddy water. Higher and higher rose the Rhine, greater and greater became the pressure of the angry, swollen current and, finally, the huge 5,000-foot dam between Switzerland and the tiny principality of Liechtenstein burst and the water shot down the mountain side like 10,000 enraged tigers pouncing on their prey...