Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that after a long rest he would probably represent Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cinema interests in France. Said MGM's President Nicholas M. Schenck in New York: "This is absolutely news to me." Meanwhile a Brooklyn judge appointed a receiver to sequester all Jimmy Walker's property in behalf of his creditors...
...Supreme Court, realizing the importance of the question, invited counsel from the Senate to appear and present its views. In accordance with this request the Senate designated Senator George Wharton Pepper in its behalf. The Government was ably represented by Solicitor General James M. Beck...
...altar on another hillside. People living in the same boarding house with him understood he was prospecting for gold, came from "up Kentucky way." Reynolds Rogers attended the County Republican convention, made speeches in which he said he was an intimate of Presidents Roosevelt and Hoover. He campaigned on behalf of the Republican ticket in a schoolhouse address, talked temperance to the Methodist Sunday School. On Armistice Day he delivered an 80-min. address. He always seemed to have money, banked at nearby Bryson City, took a weekly Florida newspaper. He promised his landlord's pretty daughter that...
From Scotland and the U. S. came "evidence" and many witnesses in Claimant Morris's behalf. A nurse and a taxicab executive testified that the late John Wendel, supposedly a bachelor, had confessed to them his secret marriage and the existence of a son. Piece de resistance of the Morris claim was a bust of John Wendel executed in bronze by one Julian Bowes. Sculptor Bowes said that the science of dynamic symmetry had enabled him to reconstruct a perfect three-dimensional likeness of his subject from two old photographs. To the vast amusement of the audience and embarrassment...
...make one's mummy just as nice as possible." So simple, so calm is the "Mother" that it is difficult to realize with what angry cluckings it was hailed on its first exhibition. Only because Sir William Boxall, Whistler's friend, argued himself hoarse in its behalf did it get into the Royal Academy at all. Critic Tom Taylor of the Times (he also doubled for Punch) promptly criticized it as "ignoring all accepted canons of good drawing, good color and good painting." In 1881-82 the picture was shown in Philadelphia and New York. Nobody thought enough...