Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Janet A. Fairbank (Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank) has written of New York City (The Cortlandts of Washington Square). Washington is far from unknown to her since her War work and suffrage activities. But Chicago? where lived her distinguished lawyer-father, Benjamin F. Ayer, where she was born, where she is known for a charming hostess and able politician?is her home and her debtor...
Down Aguascalientes' Main Street walked Harold G. Bretherton, U. S. Vice Consul. From behind rang out a shot which wounded the Vice Consul slightly in the back. The cause of the outrage was unknown, but it was believed that the bullet was intended for somebody else...
...theatre-goers. Depending on the durability of the story, the picturemakers stuck to it. Again the theory is proved that a good play does not necessarily withstand the canning process. Lightnin' is fairly amusing, fairly vibrant to the widely known heart strings. The performance of an unknown, Jay Hunt, in the Frank Bacon part counterfeits that characterization carefully...
...Meantime Lieut. Commander Richard E. Byrd, in charge of the Naval Air Unit assigned as coöperators to MacMillan's expedition to chart unknown polar regions for Science and the National Geographic Society (TIME, June 22 et seq.), reported his plans in detail to Washington...
...James Wilson, grandfather of Woodrow Wilson. He ran it for 24 years, and his son Robert Wilson ran it for seven years more. In 1896, it was amalgamated with the Evening Star (founded 1889). Now the Wilson paper and the Harding paper are both the property of "two unknown young...