Word: chief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contained an unusual amount of bedroom material, especially underpanties. As if vulgarity were not enough, the playwright sought to disentangle the plot with a series of dull and tiresome explanations. It lasted four days. Then a patrol wagon called for Mr. Grew and his assistants. Actress Alice Weaver, chief of the innocents, collapsed, screamed for her mother...
...greatest interpreter of modern times,'and perhaps of any age, was Gustave Henri Camerlynck. Death found him, last week, in Paris, five days after he had taken to bed with influenza. As Chief Interpreter of the Paris Peace Conference, the Washington Conference, and the First Dawes Committee, Professor Camerlynck received the personal thanks of such statesmen as David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson. He was to have interpreted for the new Second Dawes Committee (see col. 2). As illness stole upon him last fortnight, Professor Camerlynck interpreted, for the last time, between Prime Minister Raymond Poincare of France...
Buried in the musty minutes of the Washington Conference lies perhaps the perfect tribute to Gustave Henri Camerlynck-his rightful epitaph. As the Conference was about to adjourn, Arthur James Balfour. Chief of the British Delegation, rose with his usual majestic deliberation and sonorously addressed the Delegates...
...English instructor at a Paris lycée or high school. Marriage. Instructor of Phonetics at the Sorbonne. Much poorly paid writing of text books in collaboration with his wife. War. Served all four years as interpreter to a British artillery regiment. Then the great, unexpected appointment as Chief Interpreter to the Paris Peace Conference, the chance of a lifetime which turned a brittle, impecunious professor into the confidant of the Big Three at their most secret and vital meetings. Perhaps M. Camerlynck was even present on that celebrated evening when Georges Clémenceau and David Lloyd George...
During the panic (1907), 40-year-old "J. Pierpont" acted as chief-of-staff to his doughty sire. After the death of "J. P." in 1913, "J. Pierpont" signalized his ascension by a bold decision: namely that he and his partners would withdraw from active direction of the corporations in whose finances the House of Morgan was chiefly interested; would confide their management to such capable "outsiders" as the Owen D. Young of today; and would assume on a grand scale what has become the House of Morgan's paternal role toward such high bouncing babes as General Motors...