Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only three things break into the Senator's smooting: 1) vaudeville; 2) golf; 3) the Washington Zoo. For diversion this stern man went every Friday night to Keith's Theatre to sit in the second row just behind the orchestra leader and gaze over the footlights in unsmiling delight. Great was his sorrow when the theatre closed. His golf came at the age of 63. Now from 6 to 7 a. m. he plays a round on the capital's public links, shooting 110 in straight cautious jabs. At the Washington Zoo Senator Smoot liked to poke around among...
...Senator agrees with Mr. Grundy that Prosperity can flourish and blossom only in the garden of Protection behind a high tariff wall. To cultivate that garden, to keep its wall in good repair Utah's senator is prepared to give his all. With dutiful zeal he pleads for high duties on sugar and wool. With the political zeal of a stalwart Republican he demands protection for?
...stage, Mr. Fox has undoubtedly corralled a large number of its outstanding luminaries, including Actors Will Rogers, George Jessel, Clark and McCullough, Helen Chandler, and Authors Zoe Akins, Gilbert Emery, Cyril Hume, Owen Davis, George Middleton, Clare Kummer and many another. Prospective Fox talking features include Earl Derr Diggers' Behind That Curtain, Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's The Cock-Eyed World, Jerome K. Jerome's The Passing of the Third Floor Back, and the first of an annual revue series called Fox Movietone Follies...
...were at. One evening it was creditably reported that the General Staff had mutinied and deposed President Chiang Kaishek; but the very next morning China's bantamweight President-who as Marshal Chiang conquered all China-marched forth against the rebels as chief of the General Staff. He left behind him in jail the governor of Canton, who had earlier been reported executed. He denounced him, General Li, as "a traitor to the sacred cause of Nationalism!" Seemingly Li of Canton was in league with the rebels, a clique of military leaders with their base of operations in what...
...behind the two editors loomed the two great publishers, dictators of policies and style. One was William Randolph Hearst, whose correspondents constantly supply him with expensive but startling scoops,* whose vital pungency has won him more millions of daily readers than any other individual publisher can hoast. The other was Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the white-bearded little "man from Maine" whose Saturday Eve- ning Post and Ladies' Home Journal are as essentially sound and quiet as the Maine homes into one of which Publisher Curtis was born. Last week had Publisher Hearst seen Publisher Curtis he might well have...