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Visiting U. S. Minister Charles Calmer Hart in Teheran, Persia, Theodore Roosevelt was hospitalized for two days when a waiter, one T. Birjand, spilled a boiling samovar into...
...christened Byron Patton Harrison but Pat has become his common-law name. At Louisiana University he earned his tuition as a mess hall waiter while pitching on the college baseball team. Later he taught school, studied law, served as a local district attorney and, at 29, was elected to the House. In 1918 he performed a political miracle by defeating notorious James Kimble Vardaman for the Senate and taking over the seat once occupied by Jefferson Davis. His first ten years in a Republican Senate were ones of irresponsible fun at the expense of the G. O. P. He teased...
...never a waiter, singing or otherwise, in Heidelberg or any other place. I sang in the Kuripes there, never for money but because singing is a natural accompaniment of good beer and because my colleagues were enamored of the Negro Spirituals which I sang. The particular point here is that until that time the Negro Spirituals had never been heard in Europe and since then have become decidedly the most respected of American contributions...
...played flapper parts in silent cinema, she shows with enthusiastic violence and a flat, tough Brooklyn accent what such flappers can turn out to be when they grow up. Typical shot: Nasa (Clara Bow), insulted in a café, hurling a plate with one hand and striking a waiter with the other. Confessed Actress Bow when she arrived in Manhattan last week: "I'm getting older, and hot-cha doesn...
University of Pennsylvania and worked his way through college as a semiprofessional baseball player. He won his M.D. degree, saved enough money to go to Heidelberg where he helped pay his tuition as a singing waiter in a Braukeller. He was always more interested in chemistry than medicine. Back in the U. S. he stewed up something on the future Mrs. Barnes's kitchen range. It was Argyrol, the silver compound that serves many purposes of silver nitrate without its burn...