Word: toms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cohan wrote this play and gave it with great success just before his much advertised retirement (from which he has now reappeared). It is the story of a man who loved the stage, bad as he was, and gave up money and a business career for small-time vaudeville. Tom Moore has the part in this version. Much of the fun has survived...
...Rovers are Dick, Tom...
...street leading into Pittsburgh, a bus carrying a troupe of strolling players who present Uncle Tom's Cabin was hurrying. Other cars were hurrying likewise. One was a handsome limousine, with a banker reclining within; one was a scrap-iron truck, driven by a Negro. It was this truck, passing three automobiles coming toward it, that accidentally rammed one of them. There was a tremendous crash. Five other cars piled into the wreckage before they could stop. Among them were the strolling players, the handsome limousine. Little Eva was badly shaken. The two bloodhounds yelped with pain and rage...
Born. To Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secretary of War, a son, to be christened "Tom"; at Washington...
...York Times chooses to consider Professor Caldwell's "Short History of the American People". From his position as Professor of American History at Rice Institute, Texas, Mr. Caldwell writes weight into "the elements of human feeling and emotion". He cites the war hero presidents and places "Uncle Tom's Cabin" against the Dred Scott Decision. He delves moreover into the particular field of New England historians to characterize the Puritans. As he finds them, they were more wide-spread than is supposed, and their influence more glowingly complex...