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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Birthday. Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst, illegitimate "eugenic baby" of famed English Feminist Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst by an anonymous male; at London. Age: 2. Having recently received a picture of Baby Pankhurst, George Bernard Shaw wrote Miss Pankhurst: ''The boy looks a jolly little animal and is still, I hope, trailing clouds of glory." Birthday. Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, British politician, Conservative Party leader, author (The World Crisis); at London. Age: 55. Died. Lucy Abercrombie, 29, daughter of Col. David T. Abercrombie (David T. Abercrombie Co., camp outfitters, Manhattan); at Ossining, N. Y.; of burns. She was working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...baffled last week by an offense little short of criminal but against which there is no Paris law. One evening at the opera, Tenor Franz was in the midst of a favorite aria when out upon the stage from her box climbed a young person later identified as one Sylvia Peres of Italy. Apparently overcome by an exhibitionist impulse, she threw herself into a vigorous and not inept display of fancy dance steps. Tenor Franz stood speechless. The orchestra stopped, gaping. Mlle. Peres danced on with abandon, coming to a climax with one heel on Tenor Franz's shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Indianapolis Dancer | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Bodde, Kane, Cullen, mis-kick by Harvard. Time--Four 20-minute periods. SECONDS FITCHBURG Powell, g. g., Forno Blake, r.f.b. l.f.b., Anderson Meyers, l.f.b. r.f.b., Beanley Chapple, Larrabee, r.f.b. l.h.b., Daniel, Martin, Clog Carter, c.h.b., c.h.b., Motyka Booth, l.h.b. r.h.b., Spring Cooper, r.o.f. l.o.f., McKaragan Archibald, r.i.f. l.i.f., Sylvia, Needham Butterfield, c.f. c.f., Rishtor Wight, l.i.f. r.i.f., Friberg, Chiccane Vincent, l.o.f. r.o.f., Valentine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER TEAM CAPTURES THIRD STRAIGHT, 7 TO 2 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Geraldine, a noble act described in the play as a "virgin complex." The audience is likewise not surprised when, deprived of Geraldine, he goes honeymooning with her sister Elizabeth, the clever virgin. The veteran Robert Warwick is properly apparelled and deep-voiced as Chandler. A small, piquant brunette named Sylvia Sidney makes the wisecracking Elizabeth thoroughly fresh and annoying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...addition to all this there is a dog act, one Jack Osterman whose patter is pretty dreadful, and Miss Sylvia Clark who may possibly have feelings so we just won't say anything. The good act is an acrobatic one in which one Pete Michon succeeds in throwing himself about the stage in a manner never to be equalled again, unless he comes around for a return engagement...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/8/1928 | See Source »

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