Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Press was "a scandal sheet"; it had "maliciously slandered" him.* Judge Fitting agreed with Plaintiff Olson, issued a temporary injunction against The Saturday Press. Publishers Howard A. Guilford and J. M. Near appealed to the State Supreme Court; the appeal was denied, the injunction made permanent. Last week their second appeal to the State Supreme Court was denied. Ruled the court "[The Saturday Press] was regularly and customarily devoted to malicious, scandalous and defamatory matter. ... In our opinion, the law violates neither the State nor the Federal Constitution." Counsel for The Saturday Press promised that the case will be appealed...
...manager, rang for tea but, knowing no English, failed to make the waiter understand. He shrugged his shoulders, sat down at the piano, played Tea for Two, got what he wanted. His first Manhattan night was spent in a Harlem cabaret listening to brazen jazz which he adores, his second at a musicomedy. Then he started on a tour, played first with the Philadelphia Orchestra, went into Canada, then through the Middle West...
...important person in Argentina this week is Esther, grand champion of champions in Argentina's annual beauty show. . . . Even President Irigoyen is momentarily overlooked except for the day he presided over the ceremonies at which Esther was declared champion, and even then the president of the Republic played second fiddle to Esther. With insuperable eyes, perfect body and delicate lines, Esther has been admired this week by a great array of high government officials, diplomats and society matrons...
...Paris, 100 professional dancers unionized themselves against "gigolos" who, by their "insidious manners" and second-rate dancing, have discredited the profession. Hereafter at public halls, a dancer must have a union card to be allowed to lead rich ladies onto the floor at 100 francs per dance...
Engaged. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 21, Dartmouth senior, second son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; and Mary Todhunter Clark, 22, of Cynwyd, Pa., Foxcroft graduate, granddaughter of the late President George B. Roberts of Pennsylvania R. R.; at Philadelphia...