Word: somes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Oil Committee. Election of R. C. Holmes, President of Texas Corp., to head a committee of 80 oil-executives was last week announced by the American Petroleum Institute. The Holmes committee is charged with the difficult and vital function of determining some method of restricting oil production. The main committee...
Photographer Henry Sharp, Director Allan (Robin Hood) Dwan, and Costume Designer Maurice Leloir, who has illustrated the best printed edition of Dumas, supply that scrupulous historical detail which has always made Fairbanks pictures an improvement, for U. S. audiences, on the work of romantic authors. Better also than Dumas, rhythm...
Since 1870, the Lotos Club has considered itself and been considered authoritatively epicurean in personalities as well as gastronomies. Paderewski and Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Mary Garden and Andrew William Mellon, are some of the figures who have been honored, variously, with its cocktails, terrapin and oratory...
Costes raged and rushed to Le Bourget field outside Paris. Mechanics warned him that his motor was not in perfect tune, No matter; he would go. And as night set in he pulled his controls. The motor stuttered yet lifted him clear of the ground in a slow ascent. He...
A few sentences suffice for Mr. Brock to dismiss the objections of Harvard men to the plan; probably he has not been exposed to these objections for long, and in any event an outsider lacks the close contact of those near to the subject. While this proximity may in some...