Word: real
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resigned. Alfred Emanuel Smith, Manhattan realtor; from the directorate of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Reason: "I did not think it ethical to be director of the Metropolitan and at the same time be head of a real-estate company [Empire State Inc.] which was applying for a large loan from the Metropolitan Life with which to erect a building" [WaldorfAstoria building, Manhattan...
...Soprano Frances Alda (real name: Fanny Adler) announced that this season would be her last at the opera house. Aged 46, no longer shapely or spry, she began a radio career by singing Madame Butterfly for a plumbing advertisement...
...pretty careful. These -- state cops are pretty bad in Massachusetts. And specially in Boston. Every one of them is a hypocrite; you can't trust them. No, as a matter of fact, I won't say all of them, because just the other week here I met a real white man, but it isn't very often, I can tell...
...Ticknor, Harvard's first real candidate for an All-America berth since the days of Charlie Hubbard. The East's finest center, a tower of strength in the middle of the Harvard line, and a scrappy defense man who is in on every play, and a steadying influence to a somewhat doubtful and shaky line...
...want any one to think I have lost any of my powers. I am going to tell you incidentally the scores of a couple of big games so no one will think that, and then I will drop a small hint on the important matter so that any real smart fellow will know what to do about it. California will have a tough time with Stanford but the final score will be just about 12 to 7. And the same may be said of the Notre Dame outfit when it runs up against Northwestern. The latter may score...