Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Independent theatre owners, voting on box-office appeal of cinema people, ranked Clara Bow best of women, Colleen Moore second, Billie Dove third, Mary Pickford sixth, Greta Garbo twelfth. Of men, Lon Chancy was first, Tom Mix second, John Gilbert third...
...This was never more startlingly demonstrated than last week at the Manhattan auction of the books collected by famed songwriter Jerome David Kern (Kalua, Raggedy Ann, Who, Old Man River} of Bronxville, N.Y. At that sale Dickens' Pickwick Papers (perfect copy, first edition) sold for $28,000. Fielding's Tom Jones (first edition, uncut, original binding) brought $29,000. Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes (original manuscript of twelve chapters) topped the sale at $34,000. A total of 748 items brought...
...TOM W. GERBER...
...father as saying: "He feels like I did in 1908, not by any means like I felt in 1912." About 12 years ago my Uncle, Mr. Horace Taft, was distinctly heard by a number of members of the family at the Murray Bay lunch table to say of Tom Shevlin, "H« had himself paged in hotels by a boy waving an envelope like it was a telegram." He denied it and my father sided with him, saying that no Taft could ever use "like" as a conjunction. I feel certain therefore that he was misquoted...
While despatches went round the world telling of the pleurisy which had prostrated the King of England, one of his humblest Subjects, Prizefighter Tom Heeney, was informed by a Manhattan physician that he had been walking around for a week with a case of pneumonia...