Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blue-book too many. the mysterious being could change its shape at will for never did he appear twice in the same form. Once a section man thought he recognized the features of a freshman who had been run over by a trolley car; another swore he saw a man who had been expelled last June. But they were never sure; and always the extra bluebook was unsigned...
...longer page or puppet, Arthur Ponsonby M. P. is today one of the old progressive guard of Campbell-Bannerman Liberals who have followed their principles into the Labor ranks. Through 1906-08 young Mr. Ponsonby served as Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman; but 1924 saw him Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs and right-hand-man to the only Laborite who has ever been British Prime Minister, James Ramsay MacDonald. Thus, when onetime Page Ponsonby released his report in 192 closely packed and reasoned pages, he revealed the insight of one who has been behind...
...recalcitrant lover, a timidly lecherous golfer whose eyebrows kept going back on him whenever he saw a pretty girl, was Jack Haley, an infallible absurdity. When he broached the matter of his grandmother's bed, someone suggested that it was probably one of those beds George Washington had slept in. "We could never get Grandma to admit it." said the unilateral Haley. More samples of locker room esprit were forthcoming; John Sheehun, a sturdier comedian, described taking a bath as "dunking the body...
Miami opened its municipal airport; Miami watched air races and stunts; Miami saw the Pan-American Airways begin U. S. passenger and mail service to the several West Indies. All this occurred the fore part of last week...
Vilma Banky's real name is Banky Vilma. She was born in Nagydorog, Hungary, and has a sister named Gizi. She had been making pictures for European companies when Samuel Goldwyn saw her picture in a photographer's showcase in Budapest. The people she worked for didn't want her to meet Goldwyn and kept her out of his way. He was about to get on a train when her manager ran up, seized the magnate's arm, urged him back to where the actress, her beautiful face expressing suspense, was standing in the drafty waiting...