Word: whiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Informal riding clothes. J. Stanley Reeve is always himself immaculate and proper, a perennial figure in grey derby and white spats at horse shows, polo matches. Two years ago some Philadelphia tailors hailed him as "Philadelphia's best-dressed man." Tailors for dapper Edward T. Stotesbury and onetime Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick protested...
Thoughtfully picking his nose, Referee Jack Dempsey stood in the corner of a ring in Madison Square Garden while the announcer introduced two fighters. In this corner lantern-jawed Otto von Porat, Norwegian white hope. In this corner Philip Scott, onetime London fireman. The announcer withdrew. Von Porat, Scott, boxed clumsily for a round. In the second round von Porat hit the more agile Scott in the groin. Referee Dempsey helped Scott up and declared him the winner. From the ringside a reporter for the Norway Post, telephoning the sad news to his editor in Oslo, added the suggestion that...
...fairly successful effort has been made to bring speed and glitter to this costume romance. It has all been expertly tailored for John Barrymore's profile, for his bark, his meditative scowl, his glance of an amorous lion, his strides in high, patent-leather boots. On a white charger he leads his mercenaries into battle and pushes back with long, stiffened fingers the cloaks attached to various 18th Century uniforms. He is a soldier of fortune who earns his living fighting wars for popinjay princes and who takes a dislike to his current employer because of a remark...
...loved his mother, took care of the other children, said nothing. When the Lithuanian Jaakkola came to the island, Mabel's degeneration became complete. Two of the children died, Mabel died, Joe Pete went away to school, learned how to help his Ojibway people, helpless before the white man's legal wiles...
Great is the esteem expressed when musicians present one another with wreaths. By this token a big, bearish Russian might have felt doubly honored last week in Manhattan. He received not only a floral wreath, but a lyre made of red and white carnations and inscribed "in the name of American musicians to this Orpheus of Russia." The famed, hulking Orpheus was Alexandre Constantinovitch Glazounov, now making his first visit to the U. S. and appearing last week as conductor of his own works...