Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mouth in the first five minutes is doing himself and the food an injustice. This was the general tenor of comment of Immigration Commissioner Henry H. Curran, of New York, and of P. A. S. Franklin, President of the International Mercantile Marine Co. Their remarks were provoked by the rush to fill August immigrant, quotas of foreign countries in New York...
...with any semblance of a reputation. Roland Young's glorious portrayal of General Burgoyne in The Devil's Disciples, now running in Manhattan, gives him a foothold somewhere below the niches of the famous. He may hoist himself upwards by other, more difficult performances. To those who rush with arguments regarding Leslie Howard, Joseph Schildkraut, Jacob Ben-Ami, Geoffrey Kerr, it need only be said that all of them first saw the sunlight and the footlights on the opposite side of the Atlantic...
...Henderson sailed once more. Contrary to schedule she put in at Skagway. Skagway is now a village of about 500 inhabitants but once it had 20,000 people and was the starting point of the famous White Horse Trail in the days of the great gold rush to the Yukon. The President went to the chief hotel and delivered a short address, reviewing the history of the town. Mrs. Harding was presented with a bouquet of dahlias, each flower almost a foot in diameter. There the President became a member of the Arctic Brotherhood and took an oath never...
...Winter Garden where the current Passing Show unrolls its gorgeous length. The screaming point is reached when one Roy Cummin gs, in the manner of a concert tenor, walks slowly from the wings, heaving with the impending agony of solemn singing. He opens his mouth for the first rush of song?and falls on his face. The audience dissolves in tears of frantic delight...
...Buffalo Country Club's annual invitation tournament, to which the finest players among the country's women invariably rush like cats to cream, was won by Miss Glenna Collett. She defeated in the finals Miss Ada Mackenzie, former Canadian champion, who had previously eliminated Miss Alexa Sterling...