Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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England is nicer in lots of ways than Mexico, so much nicer that last week the civilian leader of the latest Mexican Revolution, Senor Don Gilberto Valenzuela, must have devoutly wished himself back at the Court of St. James's, strutting again in silk knee breeches with a cordon...
Haakon, Gustaf & Christian. Visitors to Oslo paid up to 500 kroner ($132). each just for a place at a window from which to see the three Kings of Scandinavia-Norway's Haakon VII, Sweden's Gustaf V and Denmark's Christian X-ride in state from the...
Queen of the Night Clubs (Warner). Although Broadway night clubs have served as a locale for more pictures than any other background except the western plains, there has not been one yet in which the patrons neglected to throw confetti or paper streamers, or to rise and cheer when the...
Mary Louise Guinan ran away from Denver in 1904 with a reporter whom she married and later left to join a musical show. Remarkable for the resonance of her voice after midnight, she became famous after 20 years in vaudeville, stock, and westerns, as hostess of her own Manhattan night...
Spring Is Here. In the spring an old man's fancy turns to musical comedy. Here is the first robin, flying in to music provided by Richard Rodgers. In addition it has intelligent lyrics by Lorenz Hart and a book by that oldtime craftsman, Owen Davis, who makes up...