Word: adriane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second Secretary Adrian Holman of the British Embassy. The Dauphin François of France, son of King Henry II and Queen Catherine de Medicis...
...Adrian, Mich., a queen bee crawled into the honeycomb radiator of Clifford Poll's automobile. Presently a flock of worker bees came after the queen bee, also crawled into the radiator. Clifford Poll pried the queen bee loose with a screw driver, made her fly away. Presently, the workers crawled out of the radiator, buzzed after their queen...
Chester Morris's parents were in vaudeville for years. His brother Gordon writes plays. His brother Adrian and his sister Wilhelmina do short turns and musical specialties. He tried to be an artist for a while, then worked in vaudeville as a Magician?"Mysterious Morris"?copying Thurston. Augustus Thomas, who was an old friend of his father, got him a part in The Copperhead with Lionel Barrymore. After that he worked in various stock and Broadway plays. For some reason he has been more successful in pictures than anywhere else. Some of his films: Alibi, Woman Trap, Fast Life...
Before Mr. Stone could take his seat on the Smithsonian board with Robert Somers Brookings (board president of St. Louis' Washington University); Irwin Boyle Laughlin (Jones & Laughlin, steel; U. S. Ambassador to Spain); John Campbell Merriam (president of Washington's Carnegie Institution), Frederic Adrian Delano and Dwight Whitney Morrow, Congress had first to pass a joint resolution approving him. With quick and courteous unanimity, the Senate approved such a resolution. Next day Wisconsin's Progressive Senator Robert Marion La Follette rushed upon the Senate floor demanding withdrawal of the Senate's approval of Mr. Stone...
...Well, gentlemen, perhaps a little," said Mynheer Adrian Gips, a director of the Holland America Line. Stoutly he added that nearly all the $1,000,000 had been spent on solid Dutch comfort-more bathrooms, broader cabins, a new swimming pool in what was once cavernous cargo space. There are no boats on any ocean so frequently painted, furiously scrubbed, resolutely polished as the Dutch. On the Rotterdam a relay of tiny Dutch pages, with faces as round and red as Edam cheeses, stand all day and half the night beside the First Class main stairway, to dash forward...