Word: vals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, at Johnny Leppig's "restaurant and social hall," John Huine, weight 350, ate (in one siting) 53 hot dogs, won the "championship" from Val Menges, who ate 44, fainted...
...idle " current in an alternating current, gives 30% to 50% more mechanical power and will save over $100,000,000 yearly if put into general use, was announced at the annual meeting of the Technical Section of the National Electric Light Association, at Omaha. It is the invention of Val A. Fynn and Hans Weichsel...
This week's show at Keith's is exceptionally entertaining. From the trained dog bricklayers of Leon Gautier to Madame Rialta's dance act never a moment lags. The leading attraction is of course, Ted Lewis and "the best band in the land"; no comment is needed. Val and Ernie Stanton contribute an extraordinarily garbled dialogue with a harmonica-ukelele duet thrown in. Frank van Hoven keeps the house in a continual uproar by his conversational method of doing sleight-of-hand. With the aid of three small boys he stages a remarkable hubbub--the best laugh producer...