Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Late wife (she died in 1921) of Alexander Pollock Moore, present U. S. Ambassador to Spain (See SPAIN, Page 16) whom she married in 1912. Famed showgirl, early exponent of tights, and sometime co-star with Weber and Fields, Mrs. Moore (nee Leonard, not Russell) made her last public appearance at the close of the War with Raymond Hitchcock in Hitchy...
...Story is pecked out on a wheezy Remington by the long Emergency Man (reporter retained for odd jobs) in the city room of The New York Morning Star. After the last copyreader has gone home, before dawn and the scrubwomen have come, he stays there alone, writing the story of his life. You quickly get the impression that the Long Emergency Man (his name is Jim Pickett) is rather a fine person, very gentle and whimsical, very hopeless, aging, wistful. The staff regards him as a mysterious but beloved failure...
...acted at the last moment, what he staked, at what odds, and lost, is too finely and poignantly told in the book to repeat here. Suffice it that Jim seems too good to be true and yet is true; and that there is a last chapter, where the Star's scrubwomen come in, which will torture the most inveterate reader of novels between a sob and a smile...
...most spectacular event of the strike was the sailing of the White Star Liner Majestic from Southampton. As the strike began to-develop, Americans in Europe were seized with a sudden and overpowering desire to go home. In a few days the bookings for the Majestic swelled from 1,700 to 2,300 -a. record number this year for the westward voyage. Bookings came in so rapidly that soon all accommodations were occupied. Men in'.the cloak and suit business who had been abroad buying and had to be back for fall openings, fell on their knees and implored...
...Majestic docked at Southampton a crew was promptly signed on for the next voyage. The lucky 2,300 congratulated themselves. Then reports began to reach London that members of the new crew had given the required 24 hours notice and would quit. There was clamor in the White Star offices. Officials replied: "We know nothing." A day passed and still pessimistic reports came from Southampton. More clamor in the White Star offices...