Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...votes cast, thus precluding a "run-off" primary unless Mrs. Ferguson's husband-manager could establish his loud charges of poll frauds. In Texas, Democratic nomination equals virtual election. Under the terms of a wager* Governess Ferguson was honor-bound to resign her executive position immediately. The lone-star state, state of the Alamo, of San Jacinto, of hard boiled sandslappers and silken-tongued two-gun men, will now be governed by a onetime Sunday School teacher...
...note. Yes, he wore makeup. His profession made it necessary. Did he wear bracelets? For reply he held up his wrist, and the golden bands tinkled their momentary music. Sentiment, he said, had sealed their clasps. He would never take them off. "Here, in tender reverie," wrote the star cor- respondent of a moving picture magazine, "Mr. Valentino bent his head. . . ." Discussing the editorial, the head was erect, the reverie was not tender...
Reported Engaged. Bebe Daniels, 25, motion picture star; to Charlie Paddock, world-famed track athlete...
Sued for Divorce. Doris Mercer Kresge, 33, would-be opera star, by Sebastian S. ("5c and 10c") Kresge, 59, onetime national chairman of the Prohibition Vigilance Committee ("Snoopers' League"); Last year a suit by Mrs. Kresge was settled out of court for $1,000,000 and "certain other considerations," which Mr. Kresge announced were "on a spiritual basis." He was divorced by his first wife for cruelty, sulkiness...
...White Star Line. Last week President Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine Co. was in London to sell his White Star Line to Furness, Withy & Co., British operators, for over $35,000,000 (TIME, May 24 et ante...