Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Director Coolidge eyed his watch, sat some more, in silence. After a half-hour, a station employé asked him what he was waiting for. Together they discovered that Director Coolidge had mistaken standard for daylight saving time. ... In Manhattan, Director Coolidge did not attend a performance of The Little Show, new revue. But a portly gentlewoman with a large handbag did attend, in an aisle seat. There is a joke in The Little Show about Calvin Coolidge at the insurance company meeting. The comedian says: "When he opened his mouth to speak, six moths flew out." When the lady...
...Free Show. All along the Mall from Buckingham Palace nearly to Trafalgar Square stretched a double row of shiny limousines bearing debutantes, peeresses, diplomats and their wives to Her Majesty's first Court of the season. Stalled by the formality of the occasion, the cars were surrounded by a dense, jostling mass of working girls, tired shoppers and messenger boys, who scrambled like children at the Zoo for a peek at High Society before going home to tea. The great state show soon to take place inside the palace was not for them. This was their -show...
...State Show. After three hours, a gorgeous group of peers, officers and diplomats stood in the white and gold throne room of Buckingham Palace, facing two massive folding doors. Calm Helen Wills and 349 other debutantes waited in an adjoining drawing room, shepherded by black, silk-stockinged Gentlemen Ushers with long white wands...
...necessary half-hour, but some of the expeditions on the Malay Peninsula failed entirely. There should. however, be photographs good enough for valuable comparisons. Never before have photographs of an eclipse been taken at periods of a half-hour or more apart. If such photographs now exist they will show whether the flamelike projections of the corona change during that period. Then, significant inferences as to the nature of the corona may be drawn...
...given last names. So his mother is Mrs. Skinner and some of the others are collar buttons, Hecky (personification of juvenile persistence), Sooky (pathetic phlegm), Carol Sharon (Skippy's girl), Milkman Lovering. The place they live in is called Morrisville. The plot is Skippy's show, BULL RUN (admission by collar buttons), his troubles at school, his baseball team, his blood-curdling threats and how he loves Carol Sharon...