Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Howard Tegland, Roy Quick, Paddy Ryan, Soapy Williams, Ike Rude, Powder River Thompson, Hugh Strickland, Mabel Strickland (world's woman champion in 1922), Bonnie McCarroll, Rene Halfley, Bonnie Gray. They pay their own way and come under the following instructions: "If you do your part, your share in the gate receipts should take care of your expenses; if you think you are good there is no excuse for your not being here; if you really are good here is the place it will pay you to prove...
...result has been accusation and counteraccusation. Ellis Island, which receives by far the greater share of the immigrants, has accommodations for only 1,700 at a time. When 15,000 arrive in one day the station is "swamped." Immigration officials accuse the steamship lines of bringing hardships upon the immigrants. In England there are protests about the " brutality " of Ellis Island. Senators inveigh. Steamship officials protest that they are doing their best to mollify conditions under the present...
Some of the contributing artists, including Sargent, are paying members of the Association as well. The landscape painters contribute two or three paintings outright as their share. The portraitists offer to paint portraits of members gratis. Miss Beaux, probably the most distinguished woman painter in America, stipulated that her sitter must be a man, and the lot fell upon Richard H. Webber, of Detroit...
...merits and importance. This impression they have sought to make in usual operatic ways. They have engaged press agents and a claque, which usually have functioned too well. It is a long standing characteristic of Melba, as of most prima donnas, that she likes to have the lioness' share of the applause at performances and of the complimentary columns in the newspapers. When a tenor sings with her and gets more acclaim than she does or as much, she looks around for a new tenor. The ambitious fellows with their press agents and claques have presently discovered to their...
Firpo received $110,000 as his share of the "gate"; Willard received...