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...original part was a log cabin, where, 54 years and eleven days before, Herbert Clark Hoover had been born. A Mrs. Jennie Scellars, who now owns the house and has declined to sell it to Mrs. Hoover, served up an oldtime Iowa breakfast. On her front porch she drove a fast trade in what a wag called "Hoovernirs...
...Driven to frenzy by the futility of outland interpretation I at last took up the work of their defense"-thus Mrs. Chapman on behalf of the Southern Mountaineers; and Outlander Mackaye is no doubt one of those who drove her to it. Certainly two interpretations could not differ more radically-Maristan Chapman's poignant novel of a reticent folk moving slowly to the rhythm of deep passions; and Percy Mackaye's lusty plays of primitive types with quick emotion and prompt voluble speech...
...flames mightily, inspired by the actual participation of Royalty in the sousing and beating out of Fire, and in the lighting of controlled counter fires to check the progress of the conflagration. That His Majesty's participation was not "bunk" shortly appeared, when a sudden gust of wind drove a shower of sparks in his direction, burning him painfully about the face, singeing royal hair. Thus the Tsar who has never been crowned, because he declares that his people are too poor to bear the expense of Coronation, stood forth, once more, primarily...
...same thing drove Dempsey out. Dempsey is a rich man now, but he knows that if he ever fought me again his money wouldn't be worth a nickel...
They backed a truck up against Clara Bow's dressing apartment at the Paramount studios in Hollywood. It took a long while to load the truck; and then they drove it away to a storage warehouse. The idea: to get rid of 250,000 letters from cinema-bugs, which had been cluttering Miss Bow's apartment...