Word: skips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...More, Here's Howe. These diversions, all but two of them new to St. Louis, will be staged by the newly-founded Theatre Society of St. Louis, similar to Manhattan's Theatre Guild. From more than 400 applicants, 32 agile St. Louis girls have been selected to skip in the choruses. Other St. Louisans are designing scenery, working backstage. Famed headliners-Mary Eaton, Leon Errol, Lulu McConnell-have already accepted contracts for the summer season. Like the city's successful Municipal Opera Company, the theatre will be in the open air, under a dome of boughs...
Cannell intends, however, that every candidate shall put in a consistent amount of football training work on his own initiative. He urges backs, ends, and centers to keep their arms in shape and concentrate on the passing game. The linemen are to skip rope three times a week for a half hour. This plan has never been tried before...
Last week there remained 270½ new seats yet to be filled. Their value will probably skip up and down with the nervous pulse of the market...
...Patriarch of Rumania, bearded Miron Cristea, presiding in his twinkling medieval mitre. Lustily sang the new peasant Deputies and Senators, clad in immaculate white homespun blouses and white legging trousers. For them the Te Deum was a stately song of triumph. Good honest fellows-some could not forbear to skip a bit for joy as the procession moved from Cathedral to Parliament. There it was quickly seen how complete had been the triumph of Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu at the Parliamentary elections completed last week. Of :he 376 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 561 are now held...
...comes the story: Ernestine ("Tini") Rossler was an Austrian, born in Prague. But she lived her first years in Verona in the soldiers' barracks. The father was a "roughneck" but the mother was a lady, tired always, with poverty and childbearing. Tini herself was always hungry, used to skip school often to go to the circus people in the marketplace where she cleaned monkey cages in exchange for food. Soldiers change their stations often. It was in Graz that the Rosslers bought a decrepit piano for a dollar and Tini mended it with string and sealing...