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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cromartie is torn with anxiety as to whether or not Josephine will come to view him. He resolves that he will not look at her if she does. He resolves he will look at her?just one lofty glance of proud contempt, as if to say: "Well, I've kept my word." He hopes she will repent and weep for her heartlessness. He hopes she will not repent...
Hearing several remarks passed in praise of Miss Wills and the reasons given for her poor performance, Suzanne Lenglen was heard to remark: "That's what I call 'bosh.' I've played on all kinds of courts and with all kinds of balls, and class will always tell!" In the invitation tennis tournament held at Roehampton, also a suburb of London, Mrs. Molla Mallory was defeated by her countrywoman, Eleanor Goss. Mrs. Marion Z. Jessup of the U. S. defeated Miss E. H. Harvey of Britain. The scores were: 6-4, 6-1 in the Mallory...
...dollars in his pocket. Nobody gives him a tumble, but he'd been tru' college and been to medical school. I asks him what he wants to do an' he says he wants to study bugs-dat's nuts-and I've just got him a job at Central Islip. Dat's because I'm in de Marshall Stillman Movement...
Flossie. This musical comedy belongs rightfully in the foregoing category. It unconsciously burlesques most of the musical plays you've seen. It has a synthetic plot, with the familiar situation of the wrong couple forced to occupy a bedroom together by an interfering relative, while silliness is unconfined. Its song cues can be spotted several minutes in advance. The dirt is dished at every opportunity. Perhaps it is meant as a satire on the typical French farce, for its creator, Armand Robi, was nurtured by the Folies Bergeres. Its chief asset is a talented chorus that cuts up tirelessly...
Into the hospital went Sam under the name of "Joseph Price" and within a few hours the operation was performed. Some time later the doctor removed the bandages from his eyes. Said the specialist: "What kind of a tie have I got on, Joe?" "You've got a blue bow tie there, Doc - suah is blue an' suah is bow." "That's fine. Now take a look around." Joe (that is, Sam) did, and there was no mistaking that he had recovered the sight of one eye- the other is permanently blind. A few days later...