Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ringside. Gathered around at various ranges of visibility, notables from all walks of life observed. When Dempsey descended into the front row he landed not far from Archie and Kermit Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, Sir Thomas Lipton, ex-heavyweight champion Jim Corbett, John J. McGraw, George M. Cohan. The visiting British polo teams were there, all the Yankee and most of the Chicago White Sox ball players, Lord Birkenhead and his daughter...
...boundaries, has never been fully occupied by the Spanish. In 1921 Spain determined to exert her influence over the whole of her protectorate, but in doing so met with serious disaster at the hands of the Riffians, commanded by Abdul Krim. Particularly since then Spain has had a hard row to hoe both in Morocco and at home. Although the towns of Nadur and Zelnan were recaptured from the Riffians in 1921, there have been more or less continuous clashes between the Spanish forces and the natives. At home the controversy over the Spanish defeat of 1921 has dominated Spanish...
Cast up by the Sea?a Sea-Coast Melodrama of the days when thirty cents bought an orchestra chair and not merely the amusement tax on a seat in row ZZ; The Soul Call?an up-to-date Piffle Play in Which a Man and a Woman, Both Trying to Find Themselves Find One Another; Dead Men's Gold?a film of the great Nevada Deserts in which Red-Blooded, Abie-Bodied Men and Women a hundred per cent. American live and love among the cactus and chaparral; Oroastus?a Greek Tragedy as presented by the senior class in classics...
Evelyn Nesbit, former wife of Harry K. Thaw: "I was arrested. They raided the El Prinkipo Café in ' Cabaret Row,' Atlantic City, where I sing and dance. They seized considerable liquor. They held Alfred Macdonald and me as alleged proprietors...
...idea of the perversions of the time beats that gives jazz its peculiar flavor-naturally, because they are good musicians trained to the sacred principle of accurate rhythm, the foundation of good symphony playing. They do, however, go in for American noise. The severely played jazz is a frightful row, stiff, harsh and unattractive. It is even worse than the genuine American jazz, though it does not so greatly offend the refined instincts of accurate time of those bred to high music...