Word: put
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week was memorable for Dramatist Sherriff. The evening following the King's visit to his play, the manuscript of Journey's End was put up at auction at the tenth Anniversary Dinner of the League of Nations Union, brought $7,500, highest price ever paid for the manuscript of a living author's first play...
Most U. S. news organs and some U. S. news-services put a wrong slant on the story. To the exclusion of other truths it was reported that no Hohenzollern was present at the Death, that a Prussian adjutant of the ex-Kaiser had barked: "The attendance of His Majesty at the funeral is wholly out of the question...
...custom hereabouts," he wrote, "to put a shilling in the pockets of a boy's first long trousers to bring him luck and wealth. May it bring Rumania's handsome little king all the luck in the world, and any additional wealth that he may desire...
...Danish-born London journalist. Born and raised in England, Eva was a dauntless member of the Girl Guides. One night of ferocious wind, she alarmed her family by not returning home. Next morning she reported that when her tent had collapsed she had "crawled out from under and put it up again." In Paris, where she lived when her parents separated, she used to borrow the goat-cart in the Luxembourg Gardens and sell the rides herself. When she was 14 she copied out the entire memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt in longhand, an act of adolescent devotion which may have...
While touring the provinces with her own group of Ibsen players, Miss Le Gallienne conceived the idea of the Civic Repertory Theatre. It was in Cincinnati that she put the proposition to her company. Many of them are still with her. Her backers included Otto Herman Kahn, Adolph Lewisohn, Ralph Pulitzer, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. She opened on a Monday night in 1926 with Jacinto Benavente's Saturday Night, gave Tchekov's The Three Sisters on Tuesday and, scorning to start gradually, added some Ibsen later in the week. The Pictorial Review Achievement Award for that year ($5,000) helped...