Word: normans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arabesque. Norman-Bel Geddes is the unchallenged genius of scenic design in this country. It was he who designed The Miracle. He has, strangely enough, an urge to direct rather than design exclusively. He directed Eva Le Gallienne in a play by Mercedes d'Acosta about "Jehanne" d'Arc in Paris last summer, and set back by a couple of decades the never too robust artistic reputation of America in the eyes of the French...
Mesdames Flora Mann, Nallie Carson, and Lillian Berger, and Messrs. Norman Stone, Norman Notley, and Cuthbert Kelly comprise the personnel of the company. Among the more familiar numbers which they will sing are "Ispy Celia" and "Now is the month of maying...
...until Paavo Nurmi visited this country last winter. During his series of record-breaking performances on American tracks, Nurmi made use of Finnish baths in New York and Chicago, and when he came to the Harvard Stadium to make his great bid for the American mile record held by Norman Tabor, he visited the baths at Quincy, accompanied by Coach Mikkola...
...Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for Mayor of New York City and a trustee of the Fund, also saw the joke: "It's a joke an us and it's a joke on George F. Baker, chairman of the executive committee of the First National Bank. Haw! Haw! Haw! Think of George F. Baker making money for the radical movement...
Died. Ruth Echo Silver Dollar Tabor, 30, youngest daughter of the late millionaire U. S. Senator from Colorado, H. W. A. Tabor; in Chicago, in a room which she and an unknown man had taken as "Mr. and Mrs. Norman," of burns sustained when a kettle of boiling water overturned. "Silver Dollar" was added to her name by W. J. Bryan, of whom Senator Tabor was a staunch supporter. Said her sister, one Mrs. John Last, wife of a wealthy Milwaukee business man: "I have never approved of my sister's life ... I can see no reason...