Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fritzi Scheff, prima donna, prospered but Husband von Bardeleben went into bankruptcy with his postcard & valentine business. Soon after came a divorce and Novelist John Fox Jr. (Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Trail of the Lonesome Pine) succeeded him, was in turn succeeded by her manager, George Anderson, who was divorced in 1920. Since then Fritzi Scheff's fortunes have varied too. Good comic operas have been scarce since the days of Victor Herbert. Tales of temperament have frightened some managers. She has been forced to occasional vaudeville towns, to doing Modiste over the radio, taking a turn...
...rest of the show is only fair. Roy Frazee's organ specialty barely gets by. The animated cartoon is all right if you like that sort of thing; and "The Girl Scout Trail" can be heartily recommended to incipient Girl Scouts...
...plan and the advisability of carrying it into effect can hardly be questioned for such a team would bridge a gap between the University and the class teams and at the same time would open a new field of athletic competition in football. Crew has already blazed the trail in special weight classes and there is no reason why this idea which has proved so successful in the spring sport should not also be applied to football...
...Otter Tail Lake in the State of Minnesota, Death came accidentally one night last week to the Rev. Ole John Kvale.† He went to bed all alone in his summer cottage, "Trail's End." All night he was alone. Sometime in the hours of darkness, tongues of flames (perhaps from the gasoline lamp) lapped the cottage and consumed it. In the morning a man, coming to rent land, found the charred skeleton of a building, and upon what had been a sleeping porch, beside what had been a cot, a body...
...workday afternoon the U. S. Senate took a recess until the next morning. The conflagration which had destroyed "Trail's End" had also wiped out the Farmer-Labor Party in the House of Representatives. For Mr. Kvale was not only a minister of the Lutheran Gospel but a member of Congress. He was the Congressman who reached Washington by defeating the once-famed Andrew John Volstead for reelection...