Word: toms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TOM FOOL-F. Tennyson Jesse- Knopf ($2.50). Any lad that likes to lie at a railroad curve for the sensation of being obliterated, almost, by a rushing express train, is likely to come to no common end.* That is Tom Fould, or Tom Fool as they call him in the years that he courts high moments of danger sailing the world's seas. His first woman, and one or two afterwards, taken not lightly, give him flashes of the same gathered intensity that comes in moments of imminent destruction. For a time, convalescing from a wreck, he finds "rounded...
...dozen Orpheum Theatres.) "Stirring scenes," it read on, "from early history are here presented for the first time in any book. See the majestic funeral of Emerson, the pitiful arrest of Coxey's army-" (Ah, yes, just so read a showboat's handbills when they played Uncle Tom down the Mississippi Valley)-"and The- odore Roosevelt (in person) putting-aside questions of state to decide more intimately those of the wardrobe. . . . Thomas Beer conclusive- ly proves that social discrimination against the Irish forced them into political control of New York; that Oscar Wilde had GOLD TEETH and wore...
...howler about the gang of desperadoes trying to do the old father out of his ranch. The young son comes back from the war, congressional medal and all, just in time. There is also a girl and a beautiful white horse. The latter is good enough even to make Tom Mix's Tony jealous...
Josiah Henson, prototype of Uncle Tom of Uncle Tom's Cabin, was received by Queen Victoria...
...high cards in this year's Scandals are numerous. There is Ann Pennington, whose knees are impudence itself; Harry Richman, night club interlocutor; Eugene and Willie Howard, Jewish comedians; Buster West, comic; McCarthy Sisters and Fairbanks Twins, who dance, sing; Tom Patricola, frantic dancer; Frances Williams, whose Charleston is notable; and Fowler and Tamara, brilliant ballroom artists...