Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ferber was sued in 1922 by her "onetime Chicago Landlady" for allegedly libelous character drawing in the novel So Big (TIME, Sept. 13). The injured person was a onetime friend and hostess of Miss Ferber's; the suit was never brought, merely talked about, the lady fancying she saw herself in the married woman with whom the young hero fell in love...
Strenuous Nights. Her Majesty attended the theatre nightly, saw Felix, Le Dictateur, La Prisonniere (now in Manhattan as The Captive), Ciboulette (operetta), and the Douglas Fairbanks cinema, Black Pirate...
...course remained to Prince Nicholas. He strolled the boulevards, defying the mode with a hole in his left sock. Toute Paris warmed to him for continuing to stroll even after the hole was called to his attention. None the less Prince Nicholas dashed to London for a few days, saw a tailor or two whose like is not upon the Continent...
...often that you see motor after motor full of fine ladies and smart gentlemen rolling up in front of the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C. But last week you saw them. It continued for three days. One day they rolled up twice...
...Nature (British monthly) drew the lenient conclusion that someone may have tampered with Dr. Kammerer's specimens. In particular, certain dark spots on some of the frogs might have been produced., not by inheritance, but by injecting a dark fluid under the skin, perhaps India ink. When he saw this suggestion, Dr. Kammerer, who had lately been offered charge of a new government laboratory in Russia and whose suicide was to be a shock and a mystery to the many scientists that had long held him in high esteem, investigated at once...