Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Star Reporters. Following the Nominees far more boldly and self-assertively than the Straight Reporters, asking more questions, thinking up more ruses, consuming more paper and ink, are the special representatives of newspapers who can afford more than the standardized A. P. and U. P. reports. Typical of this class are cadaverous Ray Tucker, who boils around after Hoover for the New York Telegram; James O'Donnell Bennett, a quick-eared conversationalist, who watches Nominee Smith for the Chicago Tribune; and Edwin S. Macintosh, a Southern gentleman, who, representing the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, lately got photographed...
From London's smart Mayfair to Scotland's dour Hebrides, every Britishman knows that the only thing which keeps him reasonably warm is the Gulf Stream. Alarming, therefore, was a report last week by two White Star Line skippers that, according to their observations, the Gulf Stream has recently changed its course ten points. Should it swerve away from the British Isles entirely, they would become semi-Arctic. Stern old duchesses and gouty earls would have to flee, pellmell, with cockneys and Irishmen before a new Ice Age. Cold England would have to be abandoned, and Britishmen would...
Fortunately the White Star Line score was immediately countered by its rival, the Cunard Line, one of whose skippers was quick to curry popular favor by declaring that his observations showed nothing wrong with the Gulf Stream. Finally the North-German Lloyd's Commodore, Herr Johnsen, scathingly observed that of course the observations of such fast ships as to the currents they were cutting through must naturally be treated with reserve...
...upon Manhattan, to the offices of a Frank Richardson, then acting as the New York representative of many a country newspaper. Young Block became adept in garnering rich advertising contracts. By 1898 he felt able to start out in business for himself. Ten years later, he bought the Newark Star-Eagle at a receiver's sale for $235,000. It required all his savings in cash, some...
...Follies chorines have gone to grand opera (Mary Lewis), a title (Jessica Brown, Countess of Northesk), "the dogs" (libel law prohibits names), the drama (Ina Claire). Few return. An exception is La Claire, whom many regard as the most pleasing U. S. actress. She contracted last week to star for Ziegfeld's fall musical piece, Nell Gwynne...