Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back until she was famous. She plugged black-face songs in movie houses until, in 1907, she got a vaudeville contract at $12.50 a week. One day when she was in burlesque her trunk didn't come and she had to sing without her blackamoor makeup. Her comedy went over better...
Grover C. (amphibians) Loening, first man to get a degree for aeronautical research (M. A., Columbia), wished a thrill last week, strapped a parachute to his back, went up in a Stearman over Roosevelt Field, L. I., at 2,000 feet jumped, and landed grinning...
...having left his mark indelibly upon Cornell?, President White went to Germany as U. S. Minister. In a like capacity he went to Russia in 1892. There began a tradition. Cornell's second president, Charles Kendall Adams, administered from 1885 to 1892. Then came Jacob Gould Schurman. In 1899, Dr. Schurman was chief of the first U. S. Commission to the Philippines. In 1912-13 he served as U. S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro. After resigning from Cornell in 1920, he was U. S. Ambassador to China. Now, since 1925, he has been a successor to Co-Founder White...
Last week Dean Meeks heard that Burton Kenneth Johnson, 22, son of a Chicago dentist, had won the 1929 Prix de Rome in Architecture-third to be given to a Yale student in the past five years. True, Architect Johnson first went to Yale last fall, after four years architectural study at the University of Illinois, where he won honorable mention in last year's Prix Competition. But the honor of tuning him to prize-winning pitch was Yale...
...narrow eyes, long upper lip, big hat, quit making western pictures three years ago. Some people said he was writing his autobiography, others that quarrels with his wife had broken his heart. He lived on a ranch somewhere and was only seen in Los Angeles one afternoon when he went to the funeral of a cowboy friend of his. Last week he signed with Hal Roach to make an all-talking horse-and-pistol picture...