Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served 5,300 towns and cities, furnished electricity to 10,000,000 people. In 1899 he married Margaret A. Bird, an actress who had been a star with Daly. Her stage name was Gladys Wallis and her husband always called her Gladys. Their home was at No. 23 Lake Shore Drive (now No. 1,100) in one of the first apartment buildings built on Chicago's Gold Coast. There they reared their son Sam who probably had the finest set of electric trains in existence at the time. Later they sent him to St. Paul's School...
...Enemies" introduces to American audiences two new faces. Hugh Williams and Mona Barrie, Certainly their debut with Helen Twelvetrees is not auspicious. The story is just another separation by the World War, of two lovers, with everything coming out happily in the end with a fadeout on the shore of an Italian lake...
...JAMES SHORE'S DAUGHTER-Stephen Vincent Benét-Doubleday, Doran...
...18th Century, Poet Stephen Vincent Benét would almost certainly not have written in verse. Many a reader of his Pulitzer-Prizewinning poem, John Brown's Body, had an uneasy feeling that it was about time "poetry" was redefined. But many a reader of James Shore's Daughter will wish that Poet Benét had not taken a vacation in prose. What Lewis Mumford (see below) would call "fatally readable," James Shore's Daughter has the faint odor of a Richard Harding Davis novel that has survived a little too long. Those who never expected...
...Violet Shore was the independent only child of a hard-bitten millionaire who had made his pile in the West and gone to Manhattan to raid the other corsairs. Gareth was one of a family of impoverished but socially correct little exiles who had been brought up to believe that they were all prodigies. Gareth's and Violet's childhood friendship might have developed into marriage, but Gareth had no money. Old Man Shore got his daughter the finest husband money could buy, and she spent the rest of her life making the best of the bargain. When...