Word: collier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aladjalow, Peter Arno, Peggy Bacon, Bruce Bairnsfather, Ralph Barton, Franklin Collier, Miguel Covarrubias, Adolph Dehni Do Miskey, Ding, Leonard Dove, Fruch, Bud Fisher, Haupt, John Held, Jr., Helen E. Hoskinson, Rea Irvin, Karass, Rollin Kirby, Kronengold, Edward Nagle, Alan Odie, Gardner Rea, Gluyas Williams, Alexander Calder, and D. T. Carlisle...
...night the village fife & drum corps, after band practice, stopped in front of the Fleming house to bedevil its occupants. Lewis Collier, Alloway's postmaster and band leader, vainly tried to quell his bandsmen. Out of the house stormed Mrs. Fleming. "I've had enough of this!" she screamed. Drawing a gun from her bosom she shot Postmaster Collier through the chest...
After Postmaster Collier had recovered, Mrs. Fleming was brought to trial. She swore she had no Negro blood...
...Elmer Rice, about Manhattan tene- ment life. Last week he announced that he had again changed his mind, that he is now moulding a libretto from George Louis Palmel la Busson Du Maurier's novel Peter Ibbetson, famed in the stage version acted by John Barrymore and Constance Collier. Metropolitan Director Giulio Gatti-Casazza has approved his last choice, ordered the opera complete and ready for delivery by spring...
...indeed, four phases of the dime novel and its follower, the Nickel Library: 1) innocent stories of the American Revolution and early Indian warfare in the East; 2) similar tales of the great plains and the pioneer West; 3) strenuous stories of New York detectives such as Old Cap Collier and Old Sleuth, of cosmopolitan boys like Jack Harkaway, or rovers like Deadwood Dick; 4) respectable stories of righteous messenger boys, of Nick Carter, Diamond Dick, Jesse James and Yale's hyper-athlete Frank Merriwell...