Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a personal visit to Wall Street Mayor McKee borrowed $17,000,000 to help run the city. Where "Jimmy" Walker had to pay 5¾% for money, "Holy Joe McKee got it for 5¼%. Saving...
...deck. Near them was a bag which might have concealed a bathing suit. Police busied themselves with dragging the river. . . . Few days later San Francisco police found another bag, left behind by Miss Millette. It contained friendly letters from Paul Bern and his secretary, wishing her a pleasant visit in San Francisco and arranging for her supply of funds. Into the Hollywood mystery was injected the new question : Was Paul Bern ever married to Dorothy Millette? And was his marriage to Jean Harlow therefore bigamous? A New York lawyer said he had a will made out by Paul Bern...
...world" cruises. He went back with a camera, found it easy to bribe natives with rings, shirts, hardware, to perform. One mishap occurred: 15 Balinese, tipsy on mild wine and carrying a cremation tower, ran over him and his camera. His picture, the leisurely record of a six-month visit, is beautifully photographed and has the warm, informal authenticity that most travelogs lack. Good shot: a Balinese youth (Trego's valet, who refused to leave Bali for any salary) smiling slowly as he watches a dance...
...teaching Harvard men to write good prose, scaring them when they were late or noisy. The scaring sometimes stuck, too. Shambling Heywood Broun once went. up to Cambridge to report a game. He planned to leave directly afterward to get his copy back to New York. He wished to visit "Copey" so he went to Hollis 15 in the morning. His old Professor waved him out querulously: "Go away, Heywood. Come back at 5:30 this afternoon." Said meek Reporter Broun, "Yes, sir," and lumbered downstairs reflecting glumly that he would have to spend the night in Cambridge, telegraph...
...Equity Association, he was an early member of the Lambs' Club and the Catholic Actors' Guild of America. His first wife, Alice Evans, died in 1919. In 1928 he secretly married Kathryn Alberta Riley, 37, who had nursed him back to health. In 1920 Lackaye paid a visit to John J. McGraw, during which it was claimed he insulted Baseballer McGraw. Lockaye said that McGraw put out his right hand in friendship, then struck him on the jaw with his left. After the fracas Lackaye nursed a broken ankle, had McGraw suspended from the Lambs' Club...