Word: tor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sarah Frances Frost ("Julia Marlowe") "a saucer-eyed, yellow-skinned girl of mel ancholic temperament," began acting in the late 80's, when "Poor Eddie" (E. H. Sothern) was playing Brooklyn in a farce he had written. "A nice lovable boy," said his tor." family, Sothern "but he made will his never name in make an ac Frohman melodramas, and was recognized as a romantic actor after his notable success in The Prisoner of Zenda. Miss Marlowe, after three yeara of intensive training with a certain Miss Dow, her stage aunt, began to take leading parts. In 1904 they...
...traveled into the fastnesses of New Hampshire, home of Senator George Higgins Moses, protagonist of the Senate rules as they are. At Manchester, he jousted in the lists, setting forth his arguments, many of which were rebuttals to his opponents' replies. This was the substance of his argument tor a strict cloture (closure) rule-i.e., a rule that would enable the Senate to stop debate in order to secure a prompt vote...
Last week, in Manhattan, far from Broadway, the Socialists celebrated once more. Nearly all the veterans of the cause were there: Victor L. Berger, Socialist U. S. Congressman from Milwaukee; Morris Hillquit, suave and literary lawyer of Manhattan; James H. Maurer, labor ora- tor of Pennsylvania; onetime (1915-19; 1921-23) U. S. Congressman Meyer London of Manhattan; Harriet Stanton Blatch, President of the Women's Political Union; and, his grin framed with scars of battle, one-time convict Debs. Fourteen hundred diners and nearly 1,000 at the crowded doors yelled, clapped, bellowed when the hero took...
...Sweringen brothers are patient men, and apparently their patience is about to be rewarded in the actual realization of their plans for the great Nickel Plate merger. Arguments tor further delay made by minority Chesapeake & Ohio stockholders have been denied by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which has bgun to consider the merger officially. Its approval will remove the last important barrier to effecting the consolidation...
...half-dollar coins, with Lee and Jackson riding their horses across one side, and an inscription commemorating the valor of Southern arms on the other, await distribution. There are no funds to bring Lee and Jackson from the rock, no funds to distribute the coins which, designed by Sculp tor Borglum, are being minted by the U. S. to stimulate interest in the me morial. Said Mr. Borglum...