Word: beau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lords debated not the London Naval Treaty but a bill entitled: The London Naval Treaty Bill 1930. Such a bill is called an "enabling act," enables His Majesty's Government to enforce upon Britons ?a treaty signed by George V.* It is considered especially nice?a sort of beau geste toward His Majesty?if the enabling act passes its second and third (final) readings not by formal votes but by acclaim. To win this acclaim James Ramsay MacDonald and leading Labor orators sweated last week and swinked...
...interest. Should I fall in love with the whale?" Dolores Costello was cast with him. He married her. He often forgets to shave, has worn the same hat ever since arriving in Hollywood, has his clothes sent from London. His best pictures were Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Beau Brummel. Mammy (Warner). It is strange but inescapably true that Al Jolson can sometimes make his kind of song-intrinsically tawdry though it is-sound like a folktune a thousand years old and that he can be funny as well as sentimental. Mammy is as silly as most other Jolson...
...enclose a picture of my young Setter "Princeton" pointing quail in the fall of 1929, No.. 150917 A F D S Book. Sire: Florendale Lou's Beau (93779). Dam: Paliacho's Shenandoah Queen...
...went to Los Angeles to be a commercial artist, began to hang around the offices of casting directors. He got parts in a few westerns and after a while his height and his handsome, inexpressive face induced directors to let him try straight roles. Some of his good ones: Beau Sabreur, The Legion of the Condemned, The Shopworn Angel, Wolf Song...
...remarkable thing is not how badly this Island of Haiti was governed, how great the corruption and mismanagement, but that any government at all existed for so long, considering the condition of the people from whom it sprang. Even its eventual and almost inevitable failure was a "beau geste...