Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breakfast beginning with Spanish melon. Governor John W. Martin of Florida was at the Jacksonville station, (with Mayor John T. Alsop and many a big fruitgrower. The President shook their hands, looked around, re-entrained for Washington. The Coolidge Special's cinema that evening was Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...every school its "fat boy." To every club and circus its "biggest freak." The U. S. Senate, "greatest club in the world," school for Presidents, outstanding sideshow of the country, has Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin...
...their guests nor disrupt the party by refusing to honor the outstanding Northern candidate. . . Having voted for Houston, outstanding Smith men were placed on the committee of arrangements, including Norman E. Mack of New York, Frank Hague of New Jersey, Isadore Dockweiler of California, George E. Brennan of Illinois, Tom J. Spellacy of Connecticut...
Idlers, lacking cash, heard little clamor from the crevices of Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Jack Sharkey, Bostonian, eminent contender for the world's heavyweight championship, was battling Tom Heeney, New Zealander. The fight was promised as an important preliminary for the next Gene Tunney championship bout. Outpouring spectators complained Friday, 13, was unlucky for them. The fight was dull; declared a draw...
...throwing off the weariness of the fiesh resulting from much reading. In "Wife Savers" Raymond Hatton and Wallace Beery display every brand of slapstick, horseplay, and clownishness capable of being photographed. With a French postwar background, a matrimonial motif and the assistance of Zazu Pitts, Ford Sterling, and Tom Kennedy they reach new heights of hilarity which are diverting, if not side-splitting. In the war scenes we have a burlesque of "What Price Glory," "The Big Parade" and "Wings"; later, after the armistice, Raymond Hatton returns to America leaving his French sweetheart in charge of Wallace Beery. An edict...