Word: succession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curious coincidence, a few years ago this same chauffeur with equal success, poured seven bullets from an automatic pistol into the body of the same much-appreciated lion tamer with similar results. Their affection is as remarkable as their marksmanship, 14 shots without a miss, and both protest against the interference of the police in their purely domestic affairs and ask to be reunited in order to continue their almost unbroken record of mutual esteem and forbearance...
...bottle parties at Delmonico's which were lavished upon chorus girls in the age of gallantry. To old codgers in club windows she leaves the memory of how she first starred in Pearl of Peking (1889). Her business is "the laugh business," which she studies seriously. Her last success before this one was Lavinia in Hit the Deck. Her home is in Hollywood, where she has learned to apply her grease paint with water, to like "being alone with a good book...
...whole would be applauding Royalty's choice of a Slovene name for the baby Prince. Such a trick is typical of King Alexander, would only work of course on a people as simple as his peasants. Time after time His Majesty has employed the old ruse with success. Notably he waited to proclaim himself Dictator until the onset of a rustic holiday which, for a week every year, renders most of the peasants in Jugoslavia convivially tipsy, broadly complacent at whatever their Serb King...
...Author. How much academic education does it take to be a writer earning respectable money? Charles Fulton Oursler, now 36, finished all schooling with seventh grade grammar, in Baltimore. Thereafter he studied French literature, sleight-of-hand, farm implements, music. He earned money by the last three. Real success came with his play, The Spider, a Broadway smash in 1927, now playing in Budapest and Paris. His somewhat spiritualized view of Adah Menken is partly explained by his membership in the American Society for Psychic Research...
Westerners who claim statistics show them to be better than Easterners in every form of athletic competition rejoiced at Winner Huston's success, claimed it established their superiority in brain as well as brawn. Pious folk, disregarding the regional aspect, rejoiced and quoted statistics to show ministers' children out number all others in Who's Who. Educators searched deeper for significant causes, found: 1) Bishop Simeon Arthur Huston, a cultured gentleman, has been (1917-19) President of the State Board of Education, Wyo., but had grieved when he saw his son spurn the classics for science; 2) an uncle...