Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hermann Oelrichs, rich Manhattanite, six months ago offered $200 for the best gallows speech of a prisoner sentenced to death for taking a drink. Last week he said that he had received some 5,000 manuscripts, all "dull"; that the offer was "just a Roman holiday sort of joke," that...
Besides these there were three new, surprise donations, for which Daniel Guggenheim gave yet another $500,000 last week: 1) $250,000 to the City of Akron (if the city raises a like amount) for an Airship Institute, to study lighter-than-air problems under supervision of the California Institute...
The Ghost Parade recounts some of the perplexities which confront the British Army in India, including a cabal who dress up as spooks in order to smuggle firearms to the natives, and an unpleasant Hindu who, instead of being the villain as no one had suspected, is really Cyril Teetarn...
In Cambridge, Mass., atop the solemn, Georgian bulk of Harvard Hall there is a cupola where, one morning long ago, early risers were astonished to behold a horse & buggy. In another Harvard Hall, banquet room of the Boston Harvard Club, there were assembled, one night last week, some 400 members...
Dramatic critics, like oldtime court jesters, have more than poet's license. The monarch public, easy to amuse, hard to offend, suffers them gladly. Avowedly criticizing plays, they sometimes overindulge in gossip, in personalities. Some days they go too far. Manhattan has its suave George Jean Nathan. London has emaciated...