Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helen Hay, Rebecca Knox, Edith Root, Elinor Wylie,* who "had not then distinguished herself by her poetry or her love affairs, save for occasional passionate little verses"?not to mention Brandegee's "beloved ideal" not mentioned by name but described as "the wife of another distinguished statesman." This unknown woman, poor thing, was described at length...
...owners of the Daily News (and of the Chicago Tribune), Captain Joseph Medill Patterson and Colonel Robert R. McCormick (brother of the late U. S. Senator Medill McCormick), were not mentioned because-great though they are in their profession-they are comparatively unknown to the public (outside of Chicago). "The McCormick & Patterson Daily News" as a phrase is no stronger, no more colorful than "The Daily News"; the words Patterson & McCormick add nothing to the reader's information. On the other hand, the words "Hearst Evening Journal" tell a story; the very mention of the word "Hearst" is more...
...that the stomach has definitely arrived in art. It is true, of course, that Miss Gilda Gray and Dr. William J. Burr, the noted stomach specialist, have revealed the stomach to us in its true light, but Hadji Ali places it before us in a whimsical, lovable aspect hitherto unknown. And he makes it instructive as well as entertaining...
...Admiral Edward W. Eberle, Chief of Naval Operations. Suddenly the morning sky was riven by the 21-gun presidential salute from an artillery battery at Fort Myer. Just before 11 a.m. the party entered the gates of Arlington Cemetery and proceeded on foot to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A band played "The Star Spangled Banner." The President advanced flanked by the Secretaries of War and the Navy. He deposited a large wreath of white Chrysanthemums upon the tomb. The three then stepped back and bowed their heads in reverence. Mrs. Coolidge then advanced and laid a white rose...
...Chicago a U. S. singer unknown to fame, one Richard Bonelli, made his début as Germont Sr. in La Traviata. He proved to have one of those baritone voices that make connoisseurs think of the golden, summery booming of an enormous bee. The audience called him out for endless curtain calls. Said critics...