Word: backings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Backstage bumpings and thumpings in Washington last week betokened the setting of the scene for U. S. participation in the London Five Power Parley next January. While official performers ran back and forth adjusting their make-up and learning their lines, President Hoover appeared before the curtain on Armistice Day to utter a prolog at the Washington Auditorium...
...Then the dinner was over and Senator Gooding and I broke away. We started out. The Senator from New Jersey [Edge] called me back and said: 'Do you know who you were between? You had Kuhn, Loeb & Co. on your right and Morgan & Co. on your left. Don't you think you got contaminated just a little...
...John L. Balderston, London correspondent of the New York World, it comes, like so many plays this season, from London. The story is of Peter Standish, young U. S. citizen living in his ancestral London townhouse, who likes the 20th Century so well that he suddenly finds himself back in it in the person of his great-great-grandfather. But while he has the visage of this distant sire, he retains his own 20th Century consciousness, which makes for much discomfort and disappointment...
...with her sister. This affair is ill-fated even though the lovely Helen knows of Peter's long journey through the years and, like him, perceives that the veils of Time are thin. She is unwilling to see him suffer in an age ill-adapted to his experience, so back he goes to his own century to fondle Helen's memento, still preserved in the old house, and to ponder her epitaph while his 20th Century fiancee leaves him, both of them disconsolate...
Chauffeurs, colonels, farmers, and a few noble lords, laughed and patted him on the back. Three hundred and twenty-one holders of the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military award, had gathered to dine with Edward of Wales, were waiting to walk in to tables laid in the royal gallery. In age they ranged from Lieut. Colonel James Henry Reynolds, 86, who won his cross fighting Zulus in 1879, to Sergeant Thomas Ricketts, 28, who won his when 17 on the Western Front. So poor are many V. C.'s that H. R. H. had had his invitations...