Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many an oldtime Southern Republican wondered how the Slemp trick would work. Virginia Republicans normally muster 75,000 or more votes. The runaway Democrats of 1928 numbered only some 40,000 votes. In the new alliance the majority accepted the minority's major candidate...
...went to school in Washington and New York, was tutored during the busy seasons. When she first got in pictures she was a free lance, that is, she made pictures without a permanent contract, hired sometimes by the week and sometimes under a blanket salary for a piece of work in a film that was being made. From being an extra she worked up to character parts. She had been a free lance for seven years when Paramount signed her. She did more character parts, then she was featured in a college story, finally starred in a succession of shoddy...
...rapid in fact were the moves of U. S. Ambassadors Dawes and Gibson and Prime Minister MacDonald, that tactful hints were sent out from both Washington and the British Foreign Office to slow things down a trifle lest another five-power naval conference be called before adequate preliminary work is accomplished...
...thing to do?report to Scotland Yard. As any reader of the best detective fiction knows, the "C. I. D." (Criminal Investigation Department) will unravel the knottiest mystery in the shortest possible time. In fiction there is usually an amateur on hand to simplify the C. I. D.'s work. In actuality, for many a long year, the master mind of Scotland Yard, the prototype of Sherlock Holmes, a sleuth in no need of amateur assistance, has been Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, a real super-detective credited with solving more murders than any living...
...name chosen was World's Work. Able Editor Page needed little assistance and young Russell Doubleday turned his attention to the book-publishing end of the firm's business. But always he kept an interested eye on World's Work, wrote articles for it, was its advertising manager for a season...