Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days ago is the result of a number of years work. Taking frogs instead of fishes they found that unfertilized eggs which would naturally die when placed under powerful ultra-violet rays for five or ten minutes turned into living fish larvae. The same experiment was tried on star fish and a number of lower animays with equal success...
William Allen White ( editor of the Emporia [Kan.] Gazette, prolific commentator on life and literature) told the New York Herald Tribune the turning point in his career. It came, he said, when he was a "smart aleck . . . infant prodigy," aged 24, on the editorial staff of the Kansas City Star. He was clowning, being loud, disorderly with three drinks under his belt, when a brown-eyed girl, whom he later married, told him to give up "that stuff forever." Then, said he, "I saw the bright lights of all the great cities of the world go pale...
Dartmouth and Williams followed Yale as the most popular men's college after Princeton. Yale polled 365 votes and Dartmouth came second with 34. Norma Shearer won a close race from Greta Garbo as the most popular feminine star in the film firmament. Adolph Menjou's margin of popularity over Dougias Fanbanks was 101 to 50 however...
Petite and piquante Mary Jane, dancing star of "Yes, Yes, Yvette," granted an interview yesterday to the CRIMSON, back-stage, before the matinee performance at the Wilbur. Discussing the particular phase of the terpsichorean art in which she excells, Mary Jane remarked that the public has a decided preference for slapstick dancing. "The audience delights in the 'knock down and drag out' burlesque dance, and such a number in the repertory of a professional dancer, means more applause and more money. However, one pays fully for both. The audience cannot appreciate the risks that one has to take to achieve...
...longer will the visiting royalty, the grand opera star stranded in the midst of the Puritans, the very haute monde, automatically head for the classical frigidity of the Copley-Plaza. No more will the debutante spend her long winter evenings under the Louis Quatorze shelter of the Somerset. Hotels--in great abundance--are coming to Boston...