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...Near Ogden. Utah, Fireman Ollie Lance of Union Pacific's No. 19 sneezed. No. 19 came to a sudden, sickening halt. Out piled the train crew, out piled the passengers, to search the tracks until they found Fireman Ollie Lance's lost false teeth...
...University of Texas, later worked for a while on the Dallas News. In 1919 he broke into New York on the old Herald. He was never an outstanding reporter. He stayed with the Herald when Frank Andrew Munsey merged it with the now defunct morning Sim and when Ogden Reid merged it with his Tribune...
...uses for cotton to increase consumption and reduce the cotton surplus is the Galveston (Texas) Chamber of Commerce. Recently it adopted and sent to Washington a resolution calling upon the Treasury to use an all-cotton paper stock for U. S. currency.* Last week Acting Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills, replying to the chamber's general manager, rejected the suggestion on the ground that linen stock gives paper money great durability. During the War when Irish linen was scarce the U. S. used cotton stock but discovered that it stretched and tore...
...form of "cuckoo humor"-causing them, in moments of emotional stress, to go into absurd monologs, parodying the attitudes and technique of serious fiction. Because Barry's characters were rich and well educated, it came to be believed that such gaiety was the height of sophistication. Author Donald Ogden Stewart is an old hand at this type of humor and he employed it in his play Rebound. Less successful in Manhattan than either of Author Barry's comedies, it was purchased for the cinema by RKO as a vehicle for cinemactress Ann Harding. Ina Claire got the role...
...Today Ogden Mills is no longer the aggressive, arrogant young man who tried to bulldoze his House colleagues with scorching sarcasm delivered with a high nasal drawl. He has grown affable, friendly, almost democratic. He listens politely to other people's views and opinions, is ready to accept their suggestions. Age has mellowed him, changed enemies to friends...