Word: beds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Behring Sea Arbitration. Later he represented his country in more international controversies than any other living man. As Under Secretary in 1914 he was the real functionary in Washington while Secretary William Jennings Bryan preached Pacifism throughout the country. Once Mr. Lansing was aroused from bed to digress on international law. It was held "unnecessary to disturb Mr. Bryan." In the tense crescendo of feeling which led to the War, Mr. Lansing succeeded Mr. Bryan, was shrewd, logical, firm. He squashed propaganda, refused to be gulled by German Ambassador von Bernstorff. Elihu Root remarked an improvement in state papers...
...Marriage Bed-Ernest Pascal, novelist, Ernest Pascal, film scenarist, becomes Ernest Pascal, playwright. While preparing dramas for the cinema he wrote a play, last week produced in Los Angeles with considerable California éclat and a good smattering of sound Manhattan theatre. It was an able play, staged with excellent ability by Robert Milton, famed Broadway director.* The principal performers were Alice Joyce and Owen Moore, cinemactors...
...century and a half. But now this precedent was shattered, and the Grand Duke (Crown Prince) Nicholas of Russia chose to wed the little Danish princess. There is no question that they were infatuated. But he was stricken with paralysis before the nuptials could take place. On his death bed the Grand Duke Nicholas called in his fiancee and his bull-necked brother, the Grand Duke Alexander, and bade them wed. They obeyed...
Twentieth Century. She motors into town with her shopping list?sardines, bath salts, boots ? but hurries back to her country seat (same monastic manor) and sits on Queen Bess's chair, brushes her short hair with King James' silver brushes, bounces up and down on his sacrosanct bed...
Died. Samuel Newman, 76, manufacturer & inventor (cigar tip cutter, bed rail lock, pneumatic mattress); in Cincinnati...