Word: beaumonte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Babbitt. The great American legion that calls George Follansbee Babbitt friend will hardly recognize his familiar figure as a skeleton, stripped of most of the flesh and blood wherewith Sinclair Lewis endowed him, strung about with a few chunks of cinematic laughter-bait, dangled rakishly by Director Beaumont inside the standard triangle frame. Corporeal flesh the producers could and did obtain, in the not unconvincing shape of fat Willard Louis, hitherto unknown. But of spiritual tegument the scenario had none. For obvious reasons, Tanis Judique, middle aged and harmless in the novel, was sent to the boudoir and brought...
British Action. At a Cabinet meeting in London, it was decided to cancel the Mission of Sir Thomas Beaumont Hohler, to hand over British interests to the care of the U. S., to recall Mr. Cummins. Following these acts, Premier MacDonald made a detailed statement on the situation in the House of Commons. Said...
...will enter a biplane of 500 horsepower with Sadi Lecointe, holder of the world's altitude record (almost seven miles), as his pilot. The Fiat Co. of Turin, Italy, will probably be represented by Pilot Brae Papa. The Belgians will come in if they have any luck at the Beaumont Cup race next June...
Married. Miss Laura Beaumont Hadley, daughter of Arthur Twining Hadley, President Emeritus of Yale University, to Nicholas Moseley, instructor in classics at Yale...
TEXAS: The town of Beaumont reports a new record rainfall for the United States. Over 13.5 inches of rain fell inside three hours. All but half an inch of this amount fell inside two hours. Fifty thousand dollars damage was done to property and one serious accident caused by the cloudburst, when an oil storage tank was struck by lightning and a man burned in a pool of burning oil. Two flat-roofed frame buildings collapsed from the weight of water in the gutters. Telephone girls went to work in bathing suits...