Word: boutons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Hamburg, Iowa, at some undisclosed date before 1900, Lilie Bouton traveled to Reno and then to San Francisco, attended the Van Ness Seminary on Nob Hill, soon broke away from her parents' domination and got a part in a San Francisco theatrical troupe. She traveled East with the company, left it because of the manager's unwelcome attentions, was stranded in New York until she got a part in a road show. She was becoming well-known as an actress, had been engaged to Arthur Byron, refused the proposals of several eminent theatrical figures, when...
...offer would be safe because he was at sea, he was mistaken. Robert B. Greene, a Wall Street betting commissioner, in a radiogram to the Rex, took half the Democratic financier's bet for a client. Next a Republican who voted for Roosevelt in 1932, Le Grand Bouton Cannon of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., hastened to claim the other half of the Gerard bet on behalf of a syndicate of friends...
...goes without saying that any wounds which have been given by Mr. Bouton's reference are a cause of real regret to the Sun, but it goes equally without saying that these wounds were not intentionally caused. . . . But the Sun does not grant the truth of the allegations made against it in the Catholic Review, nor can it accede to demands which violate its general policy...
...Obviously there was unfortunate phrasing here. Mr. Bouton, writing hurriedly, used two words, 'ruthlessness' and 'brutality' in attempting to rehearse the strong virtues which historians attribute to Loyola. These words were badly chosen and are not in accord with the prevailing historical opinion. His error should have been deleted by the subeditor who prepared the article for publication, but again there was a lapse and the words got into the paper. The inadvertence was and is regretted...
...goes without saying that any wounds which have been given by Mr. Bouton's reference are a cause of real regret to the Sun, but it goes equally without saying that these wounds were not intentionally caused. . . . But the Sun does not grant the truth of the allegations made against it in the Catholic Review, nor can it accede to demands which violate its general policy...