Word: alex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Family: "More and more he puts his Peter Pan years behind him and becomes a serious citizen." But in one respect he refuses to please King George and Queen Mary. He will not live in Marlborough House. The Marlborough House issue arose first when the late Dowager Queen Alex andra moved there after King Edward's death, though London had long accepted Marlborough House as the normal residence of an adult Prince of Wales. Three years after the death of the Dowager Queen in 1925 the Queen swept in with carpenters, painters, decorators. At a cost running into...
...same as that scheduled for yesterday's game with Lawrence Academy which was called because of rain; Proctor Avon will again start on the mound. Jayvee Game With Worcester HARVARD WORCESTER Gallagher, c.f. c.f., Ask Connolly, 3b. s.s., Bates O'Brien, 1b. c., Urban Lockwood, s.s. 3b., Alex Lee, r.f. 1b., Matt Twitchell, l.f. r.f., Tellico Carr, 2b. 2b., Moulton Thom, c. l.f., Spencer Wood, p. p., Hall...
Outside the committee room progress on l'Affaire Stavisky was limited to two main developments: 1) After four doctors, in the presence of four members of the parliamentary committee, had performed a second autopsy on the battered body of Handsome Alex, it was announced once and for all that Swindler Stavisky had committed suicide when trapped by police in Chamonix. There was only one bullet wound in the body, in the right temple. From the way the bone was shattered the pistol must have been fired almost touching the head...
...became a Deputy for French Guiana. The two cronies developed an even wilder scheme: to arm the convicts in the Guiana penal settlements and set up an independent state which they imagined the U. S. would support. At this point, still according to Deputy Henriot, Jean Galmot and "Handsome Alex" Stavisky fell madly in love with the beautiful Arlette Simon who married Stavisky. Conspirator Galmot tattled on Conspirator Stavisky. In 1928 Jean Galmot was mysteriously poisoned. A partly burned letter from Stavisky contained the sentence: "Galmot will find out what it costs to cross my path." On his deathbed Jean...
...Court of Appeal. White-chinned old Henri Chéron, Minister of Justice, promptly removed good Friend Hurlaux who struck an attitude and attempted to swallow poison. He was rushed to a hospital where he signed a statement swearing that he had never accepted a single sou from handsome Alex. Lawyers for Stavisky's principal agent, Secretary Gilbert Romanigno, are Raymond Hubert, one of the smartest pleaders in Paris, and a M. Pinganaud. Paris papers have hinted for weeks that both know more about the case than anyone in the city. Early in the week police searched Lawyer Pinganaud...