Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...watched their confusion, heard them ask the Secret Service man on patrol duty why he had rung the bell, heard the patrolman's denial of any bell-ringing. After the guards had dispersed, the President stole back, again pressed the button, again trotted away, chuckled as the previous scene repeated itself. Pleased, the President several times repeated his little prank. Eventually the Secret Service detail discovered the source of the false alarms, put in another bell in a spot unknown to the President. When this story became public, persons who question the existence of a presidential sense of humor...
...Street Scene. The Manhattan house is divided against itself. There are apartments on both sides of the hall, on every floor. The June day has been a scorcher ?"Hottest July fifteent' in fawty-one yizz. Yeah. Six dead in Chicago and no relief in sight, the paper says"?and Mrs. (First Floor) Florentine, Teuton wife of the Italian music teacher, is telling Mrs. (Second Floor) Jones how she "sveat all day, took a bat and sveat some more." Abraham Kaplan, also first floor, strains his eyes, moves his lips as he reads the Jewish Forward in the sultry...
...usual time for an electrocution is Thursday at 11 p. m. The warden is required to send out invitations to "twelve reputable citizens of full age," three court officials, two physicians, seven keepers, a clergyman, the executioner (a skilled electrician). The warden must also attend the scene himself. Warden Lawes says that he has received more than 700 applications for the job of executioner, many of them offering cut-rate prices...
Alan Ward and Thelma Paige played well in this homely love scene and all the other actors, especially Jean Adair as Mom, did their perhaps too level best to make the rustic trifle seem intense...
...recommendation of the Prince of Wales, invited her to perform at Windsor Castle two years ago. Last spring, Miss Draper was presented at the Court of St. James's, an honor no British actress has ever received, and an episode which added one more brief, unpredictable mis-en-scene to the abrupt series in which Ruth Draper's life, and all other lives, is told...