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Word: wright (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most tuneful of the Savoyard operettas, The Mikado. This opera is the one in which NankiPoo (William Williams), son of the Mikado of Japan (John Barclay), disguises himself as a wandering minstrel to woo Yum-Yum (Lois Bennett), ward and fiancee of the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko (Fred Wright). By crossing the palm of the stately grafter, Pooh-Bah (William Gordon), whose ancestry is so proud that he was "born sneering," they avoid one tangle of legal red tape only to discover themselves enmeshed in another. Not till the exalted Mikado himself descends upon the scene does the complication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Theatre: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Talking at Duluth, Minn., last week, at a dinner to his veteran employes, Chairman Robert Wright Stewart of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana said: "The Standard Oil Co. of Indiana is the largest manufacturer of gasoline in the world, yet alone we could not supply the demand of the 11 states in the Middle West in which we market our products. If we had a monopoly we would not know what to do with it. I suspect our enhanced problems of production and distri- bution would drive some of us to an early grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dinner Talk | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Married. Miss Dorothy Evans Nulton. daughter of Rear Admiral Louis M. Nulton, superintendent of the U. S. Naval Academy; to one Laurence Wright Browning, Naval Academy '24, who quit the Navy to enter business; at Annapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Happy Ending. Unfortunately, the nature of the worship conducted in the first Westover temple is left vague, except for "Nearer, My God, to Thee." But Mr. Wright assures the reader that "there was not a feature of that service which would not have been endorsed by all churches. There was not a word of the sermon which would not have been endorsed by all ministers. It was simply Christianity in spirit and in fact?and it was nothing else. . . . The groceryman and his four friends knew that they had made no mistake. . . . The minister left the rostrum through the arched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...DARK CHAMBER?Leonard Cline? Viking Press ($2), *God AND THE GROCERYMAN?Harold Bell Wright ?Appleton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

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