Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expedition to Farmer Hoffman's cornfield to snitch a few ears of corn for a "roast." As they crept through the tall corn rows a gun was fired close by. Johnny Kolesar, riddled with shot, died that evening. The two Klementoviches were also struck. Johnny's sister identified Craig Hoffman as "the man in the brown pants" who fired the shot. Hoffman was hustled off to jail, held without bail...
...great heights as far as originality or plot is concerned, but it does show Miss Mackaill that the title of the theme song. "The Things We Want Most Are Hard To Get" contains truth. Jack Oakie contributes his usual share of laughs at the expense of his manikin sister who longs for Park Avenue and has no objection to being picked up if the driver has a handsome car. The photography is unusually good, especially of the scenes in the Martin home...
...Monday evening came the President's great state dinner for his distinguished guest, now his friend. Seated at the mammoth horseshoe were 86 diners. Vice President Curtis and his sister Mrs. Gann, the British Ambassador and Mrs. Howard, all Cabinet members and their wives, Prime Minister MacDonald's official party, mainstay Senators and their wives, were chief guests. Notably absent were Speaker of the House and Mrs. Longworth, who were "in Cincinnati," thereby reviving still more gossip on the Longworth-Gann feud...
Last week in his cheery way Mr. White undertook to speak for Kansas in the matter of social precedence for Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, who is also Dolly Curtis Gann, sister and hostess of the Vice President...
Fortnight ago when Manuel Morales, his sister Rita and three friends decided to spend their vacation in Oaxaca hunting for buried treasure near the ruined temples of Teposcolula, friends considered them practical, prosaic. So did Oaxaca state authorities who issued a treasure hunting license with the usual provision that 50% of the findings, if any, should be given to the state...