Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...touch. His serves streaked into the court, changed direction when they struck, bounded far out of reach. His drives skimmed the net, his kills were invincible. But when the score was 5 to 5, Tilden's last fling was over. Valiantly he fought but Cochet took the next two games, the match...
...Two notable facts about Funnyman Rogers: 1) his' quips are always clean; 2) he is "worth" two million dollars...
...With two big girl-shows opening in Manhattan last week (see col. 1) moralists hurried as usual to see them, to make sure they were not indecent. Historians reflected. Twenty years ago Producer Florenz Ziegfeld presented Miss Innocence, with the late Anna Held (milk baths). Of it Theatre Magazine said: ". . . Bare legs and suggestive humor . . . sheath gowns [padlocked] to nothing at all." Also in 1909, famed Composer Richard Strauss's Selome was sung and danced by Mary Garden. Spurred by this event, Publisher Condé Nast's newly-acquired feminine smartchart Vogue editorialized...
...production is not morally offensive to the community. . . . Last season . . . owing largely to the opposition of the daughter of a director, New York was spared the disgrace of a most objectionable opera, and had the directorate of another house included among the members of its several families one or two such conservers of morals this season also the city would have escaped the hideous spectacle of a disgustingly realistic presentation of debased womanhood. To come into contact with moral pitch visually or orally is defiling, and to sit through one suggestive play, except for the purpose of protesting to newspaper...
...initiated the Chicago-to-Berlin idea. He has been arguing for such a flight for five years. Last year he persuaded Rockford, Ill. boosters to finance him on a trip with Bert Hassell in the Greater Rockford. They got as far as stormy Greenland (TIME, Sept. 10). Two months ago Cramer backed Aviation Editor Wood into a Chicago hotel room and talked sport, adventure, glory at him. The trip would be safe and sure. They would fly from Chicago to Milwaukee, make a courteous gesture to Leif Ericsson's statue there, go across Canada to Cape Chidley...