Word: clive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of Forgotten Faces was written by Richard Washburn Child, onetime (1921-24) U. S. Ambassador to Italy, and by Oliver Hazard Perry Garrett, onetime crack reporter on the New York World. The above seduction scene causes a gentleman crook named Heliotrope Harry (Clive Brook) to kill the man in the bedroom and have nothing more to do with the woman, his wife. He goes to jail for murder, is released years later. His major problem is to keep his grown-up daughter away from the evil influence of his wife. Success crowns his efforts when both...
...Amid cries of "Hear! Hear!" from members of all parties, First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman announced that the Admiralty Board has, in effect, reversed the moral implication of the sentences of "Guilty" recently passed at Gibraltar upon two officers of the Royal Navy who had complained against the shameful conduct and awful oaths of their superior, Rear Admiral Bernard St. Collard (TIME, March...
...still such universal protest First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman shortly announced that the Admiralty had found a way to punish Rear Admiral Collard without actually court-martialing him. He has received orders, said the First Lord, which have the effect of placing him in provisional retirement upon half...
Even the King was perturbed. He called the First Lord of the Admiralty, William Clive Bridgeman, to Buckingham Palace and asked for details. Meanwhile the British public was flabbergasted by reports that there had been a "mutiny" aboard H. M. S. Royal Oak, Flagship of the First Battle Squadron of the British Mediterranean Fleet...
...Admiralty's estimate of its budgetary needs was presented to the House of Commons, last week, by rubicund First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman. After tolling out the mighty total sum of ?57,300,000 ($278,478,000), Mr. Bridgeman remarked that this represents a cut of ?700,000 from the appropriations of last year...