Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consider that Luther had no reputation one way or the other. If they had shown him, a stubborn, roundheaded little man, going about "his business in a country and a period where certain conditions existed, they could not have failed to suggest, by his reactions to those conditions, what sort of a fellow he was, and what sort of struggles went on in his mind. This might have been a great picture...
...Wilson Page, Burton Jesse Hendrick, Edgar French Strother, and most lately, Barton Wood Currie, onetime editor of Ladies Home Journal. Last year Doubleday, Page & Co. ceased to be exclusively the Doubleday family business, by merging with the business of Book Publisher George H. Doran. Last week, in an objective sort of way, Doubleday, Doran & Co. announced that Russell Doubleday was to step in and edit World's Work...
...rector. Editor Shipler, native of Warsaw, N. Y., studied at Hobart College from 1902 to 1905, then turned to reporting for the Boston Traveler. He went to The Churchman in 1917, became its editor five years ago. Other Shipler crusades have been: Attacks on censorship of any sort; pleas for the liberation of Mooney & Billings, California's Socialist-pacifist prisoners; defense of the Rev. Lee Heaton. Rector of Trinity Parish (Episcopal), Fort Worth, Tex., who was nearly ousted from Texas by the Ku Klux Klan and the Rev. J. Frank ("Two Gun") Norris, Baptist (TIME, June...
...Harlem night club known as Connie's Inn. As in all Negro revues, there are banal scenes on the levee, dingy costumes consisting of overalls with patches on the seats of the pants. Yet for dancing, humor and dynamic showmanship, this is the best venture of its sort since Blackbirds. Best dancing: "Jazz-lips" Richardson (shuffles and sneaks). Best tune: "Ain't Misbehavin...
...while he was at the height of his career. It was characteristic of him to walk down a Philadelphia theatre aisle holding the injured member aloft so that all might see. Miss Wills, ace of women players, from the opposite edge of the U. S., is just the opposite sort of person...