Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Gilbert has been connected with the theatre all his life. With his mother, an actress, he grew up in road-shows, later filled inkwells for a San Francisco rubber company, played in stock and finally in a picture, The Snob. Mary Pickford gave him his first big part (Heart of the Hills). In 1918 he married a girl who put on an act in his base-camp; later they were divorced. He married Leatrice Joy in 1921; they were divorced. He has a 92-ft. schooner called The Temptress, drives a Packard, plays tennis fairly well, golf badly...
...Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr., was supposed to be suffering from a thoroughgoing beating which, she said, had been inflicted on her on Thanksgiving eve in the Sherry-Netherland Hotel, Manhattan, by Robert H. Loeb, psychoanalyst, student of Dr. Jung, and member of the New York Stock Exchange...
About this time, Wyckoff said, his stenographer tenderly wooed 25% of the stock in the Ticker Publishing Co. from him. And when, in August of 1913, he and Cecelia Shere were wed, on the very day of the happy nuptials, with arms twined about his neck, she graciously accepted 25% more...
...more gallant did Wyckoff become. He bought nine and a half acres at Great Neck, L. L, and built a $250,000 home, all of which at his young wife's gentle suggestion he put in her name. In 1916 he assigned to her the balance of the stock of the Ticker Publishing Co., except for i% which he kept...
...first upset in the post-election bull market came last week over a matter of $3. Sir Joseph Flavelle, head of the Canadian Marconi Co., a Canadian radio stock listed on the New York Curb, announced that $3 was too high a price for Canadian Marconi shares. Inasmuch as Canadian Marconi was being quoted at $27, Sir Joseph's tow Opinion of -the stock shocked Marconi speculators. Dropping perpendicularly at a speed that left the ticker far behind, Canadian Marconi dove to 15½ before trading in it was suspended. The stock had been riding on a rumor that...