Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late for the opening of Flo Ziegfeld's revival of Show Boat, Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch was making for his seat when the hanger-loop on his overcoat snagged on the button of the usher's uniform. Usher and Financier struggled for a long moment in the darkness. Finally the usher ripped the button...
...Cincinnati, Manager Charles Evard ("Gabby") Street of the world's champion St. Louis Cardinals saw a friend in a front box. Wearing his uniform, he went over to say hello. Umpire Reardon reported the incident to President Heydler of the National League, who fined Gabby Street...
...fine collection of the earlier Fakes, which he invited the new Fakirs to study. Last week he gave his prize (a check instead of pennies) to Beata Beach, daughter of Sculptor Chester Beach, for a parody of De Witt M. Lockman's Academy portrait, His Ancestor's Uniform. The original showed a baldish gentleman in pince nez, leaning against a colonial mantelpiece in a Revolutionary uniform. Fakir Beach showed the same man, completely nude, against the same mantel, under a portrait...
...childhood in Elmira, half a mile from the New York State Reformatory, brought Warden Lawes to his prison-keeping career. On Saturday afternoons, from a safe distance, the boy watched the Reformatory inmates at work. They did not look very unhappy or dangerous to him. And the uniformed guards were things of beauty, in their way. At 17 he was in an Army uniform himself. Three years of drab post-Spanish-American War service led him to seek a career elsewhere. Why not be a prison guard? Friends suggested dog-catching instead, but he was serious. He passed the civil...
Newshawks swooped upon the Harmony Truth Centre, found Citizen Smart jovial and garrulous in his defiance of the law. He put on an old Army uniform posed by his Hoover fence. He revealed the books which the Smarts will soon read: Pilgrim's Progress, Emerson, Byron Shelley, What a Young Man Should Know What a Young Woman Should Know...