Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gorgeous Hussy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Peggy O'Neale, Washington, D. C. innkeeper's daughter, whose second marriage, to President Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War John Eaton, caused an uproar in Washington society unrivaled until the appearance of Mrs. Dolly Gann in 1929. Peggy O'Neale's first marriage was to a Navy purser named John B. Timberlake, who committed suicide. The uproar started when the wives of other Cabinet members and Mrs. John C. Calhoun, wife of the Vice President, refused to receive her because gossip said she had been Secretary baton...
...most readers, there is likely to be no question as to which has made the happier choice of subject. In Poems of People Edgar Lee Masters lapsed into stock poetic attitudes in writing of Washington at Fraunces' Tavern, Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Boone, De Soto. Only in Andrew Jackson does he carry out the promise of his title, calling...
...helping "young players seeking advice about acting." John, 54. lying ill of a heart ailment, heard that Elaine Barrie, 21, with whom he last year had a "blessed relationship" but from whom he is now estranged, would keep the diamond ring he had given her. Lionel, 58, finished playing Andrew Jackson in MGM's The Gorgeous Hussy, began to prepare for his role as Duval Sr. in forthcoming Camille...
...Herbalist Jerome Bannigan (alias George Andrew McMahon) was arraigned as "McMahon" last week under the Treason Act of 1842, enacted after shots had been fired in the general direction of Queen Victoria. He faces seven years' imprisonment if convicted of having "willfully presented near to the person of the King a firearm "with intent" to break the public peace...
...through the air, landed under King Edward's charger. The horse took a few skittish steps, then straightened out. The King never flinched. Equerry Sir John dropped back. A shiny revolver lay on the pavement. Over the heads of an excited crowd appeared the rumpled features of George Andrew McMahon, being hustled away by four policemen towards a patrol van. Special Constable Dick had looked up just in time to see the revolver wavering in the herbalist's hand. Instinctively he lashed out, knocking it into the street. Dazed Herbalist McMahon cried, "Good heavens, don't strangle...