Word: singer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explorers may use the six Singer Sewing Machines, the Frigidaire Water Cooler (sic.), the folding bathtubs, the Maytag Washing Machine, the 30 doz. tooth brushes (Prophylactic, etc.), the 500,000 cigarets (many brands), the ton of tobacco...
Showman Ringling, Educator Flexner, Novelist Croy, Banker Warburg, Gasman Insull, the crew of the Rofa, arrived, variously by the Berengaria, Paris, Santa Louisa, Deutschland, Tuscarora, Majestic, while Poloist Milburn, Actress Larrimore, Democrat Silzer, Balloonists Eimermacher, Zech, Golfarchitect Emmett, Producer Shubert, Shopkeepers Gimbel, Filene, Singer Hempel, sailed, variously, by the Majestic, Deutschland, Bermuda...
Efrem Zimbalist, violinist husband of Singer Alma Gluck, had a reunion last week with his favorite violin-a rare 18th century Cremona, made by famed Guadagnini, worth some $25,000. The instrument was stolen a year ago from Mr. Zimbalist's dressing room in a Los Angeles concert hall. The thief was captured when he tried to sell his distinguished booty in Chicago. After being shipped to Los Angeles to be used as evidence, the violin was addressed to Mr. Zimbalist in Australia. It missed him there and missed him in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Calcutta, Bombay, etc., Chicago...
...section headed True Stories, Timely Topics, Virile Features, the New York Evening pornoGraphic published a 20-year-old legend about an obscure singer, Margerita Sylva. The greatest Carmen of them all, the Graphic called Singer Sylva, but this was not the meat of the story. Like nearly everything else in the tabloid the story had to do with matters of sex. Since Singer Sylva's reputation is comparatively unsmirched, the story's title was "A CARMEN WHO NEVER Played with Love...
...almost his most prolific year, the late John Singer Sargent completed 31 portraits and 18 other pictures. One of the former was a Portrait of Mrs. Arthur Knowles and Children, a gayly sentimental painting showing the pretty Mrs. Knowles lounging on a sofa, embracing two affectionate little boys who nuzzled against her. Less cool than most of Sargent's glimpses at maternity, charming because of its humanity rather than, like most Sargents, because of brilliant artifice, the picture was kept in the Knowles house and secreted from the public. Last week it arrived, for popular inspection, in the Howard...