Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...songs, shins, and scintillations see Funny Face, Show Boat, Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Manhattan Mary, Keep Shufflin', Take...
Anna Putriuniate, 17, native of Lithuania, dressmaker in Montreal, Canada, wanted to become a resident of the U. S. She paid a man $50 to show her how. He took her one Sunday night to the gorge dam at Niagara Falls, lowered her by a rope to the trestle of the Michigan Central Railroad. With little, cautious steps she walked along the cold steel girders, while the Whirlpool Rapids 250 feet below howled at her. She was shrewd enough to put her legs in trousers instead of flapping, treacherous skirts. She reached U. S. soil. Last week she was arrested...
...Having recently received a famous fiddle, you are most cordially invited to attend my first public recital, to be given from the top of the Washington Monument, this city, on the evening of St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1928, at 8 o'clock. I desire to show the world that having out-Neroed Nero in persecuting and denouncing that hated sect of Roman Catholics, I can also equal if not surpass him as a fiddler. Very truly yours, J. Thomas Heflin...
Having delivered himself of opinions upon the Bible ("a bloody book"), upon the many cases of substitution to be found in the streets of St. Louis ("I can show you a thousand"), and upon an enormous number of other topics*, famed evangelist and onetime baseball player Billy Sunday last week prepared to conclude his seven-week revival meeting in the city which was once perfumed by the aroma of Anheuser-Busch or other famed brands of beer...
...rescued from their present rather ignominious condition among the elite if the plans of A. P. Moore, former U. S. Ambassador to Spain, are realized. The Hearst tabloids in New York, and Boston have passed into the hands of the ex-Ambassador, and with them he intends to show the true possibilities of that most modern type of journalism. The use of pictures to give the news of the day has no essential disadvantage, and under a management that would eliminate the stress now laid by them on sordid and sensational items they can be of real value...