Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that is a smart, scheming, successful harlot. Mae West, buxom actress, is chiefly responsible for making this meaning a household word. Her play, Diamond Lil, in which she performs the leading role of a dive-keeper's mistress, has been a smash-hit on Broadway since early spring...
Just a few lines to correct a misstatement made by one Eugento Vera in your issue of Sept. 3 concerning the success of the Debating Team of the University of Puerto Rico in the Eastern States this past spring. This team did not win in all its debates. It was defeated by Boston University on April 10, by Bates about a week later and then by Princeton. Of the dozen or so debates in which the Porto Ricans took part, only two were in Spanish. This in itself is certainly an exceedingly fine comment on how much interest is taken...
...comfort of knowing that it would soon be over now. Even if Mr. Hoover should be elected and appoint Calvin Coolidge to the Supreme Court or something, or if it were decided to continue living in Washington anyway, the strain of being First Lady would definitely cease before next spring...
...good actors have played and Miss Bonstelle, a kindly, able, loquacious lady, is regarded as an expert impresario. It is said that she taught Alice Brady how to act and other able mimes-Ben Lyons, Ann Harding, James Rennie, Katherine Cornell, Helen Menken-have appeared in her productions. Last spring Jessie Bonstelle organized a drive for subscribers in order to convert her playhouse into...
...spring, the T. A. T. will put into operation a daily air-rail service between New York and Los Angeles. The founders of the T. A. T. are Clement Melville Keys, president of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc.; Charles Lanier Lawrance, president of Wright Aeronautical Corp.; Gen. William Wallace Atterbury, president of Pennsylvania Railroad; William Benson Mayo, chief engineer of Ford Motor Co.; and other air-minded potentates (TIME...