Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Born in Brooklyn in 1886, Jannings went to live in Germany before he could talk English...
Eddie Cantor, 37, famed comedian, whose antics in Whoopee pay him $5,000 weekly, declared last week he would leave the stage after the present season, retire to his farm in Great Neck, L. I. "After my five daughters went to bed one night," said he, "my wife, my doctor and I held a conference. . . . We decided that Eddie should go in for being a country gentleman...
...Philippines, and throughout Oceania there was much wailing, beating of breasts, disposing of chattels at the arrival of "the end of the world"-and much surprise when the world went on. The Siamese were much upset for fear of royal disasters produced by the eclipse. At the eclipse of 1868, King Rama IV, an amateur observer, caught cold from exposure and died of pneumonia...
...York Evening World, a Pulitzer paper, went the "most meritorious public service" prize, a $500 gold medal, for combating civic graft...
...minutes of increasing bewilderment, the auction proved a fiasco. True, the Crucifixion was sold for $375,000, breaking the U. S. record. But there was no feverish bidding, there were no great names. The picture was quietly repurchased by Sir Joseph Duveen himself. The Madonna and Child went to Leon Schinasi, Manhattan tobacco merchant, for a paltry $125,000. The auctioneer had to face the fact that between the appraisal total and the realized total was a difference...