Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Life courses on persistently in the elder heroes of the War. Hindenburg has majestically topped 80, Foch 77, and good "Papa" Joffre 76. Early, therefore, seemed the harvest which Death reaped, last week, in striking down at 66 perhaps the greatest soldier-Scotchman, Colonel - Douglas Haig, first Earl Haig (British creation), but 29th Laird of Bemerside (Scotch), and, from 1915 onward, Commander-in-Chief of all Britannia's armies in France, famed as "Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig." Men will remember and revere him for Scotch virtues. The core of his unalterable concept...
...proper momentum. Aside from this foible, Director Griffith is consistently aware of his story's potentialities. His photography is always dextrous, at times brilliantly effective. Director Griffith was accustomed to lie under a dining room table, in La Grange, Ky., listening to the stories which his father, a Colonel, would read aloud by the light of a lone, economical candle. Later be became reporter, playwright, saw a movie in a nickel theatre. His first connection with the cinema was that of an actor; he used later to direct Mary Pickford or Mack Sennett, making a picture a day. According...
Married. Miss Rosamond Pinchot, 23, actress (The Miracle; now with the Reinhardt Co.), niece of onetime Governor of Pennsylvania Gifford Pinchot; to William Gaston, Manhattan lawyer, son of the late Colonel William Alexander Gaston, potent Boston lawyer, onetime (1902) Demo- cratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts; at West Chester...
...this Helen Keller, living now in Forest Hills, L. I, last week were sent three thick volumes from the New York Public Library. We, famed Colonel Lindbergh's account of his most famed escapade, had been translated into braille type for blind readers; these were the first impressions of the translation. Helen Keller read them slowly because, carrying her police dog puppy downstairs a few days before, she had fallen and hurt her arms. A dog sat beside her as she read, looking with bright uncomprehending eyes at the book she held. Last May, when the world...
When came the turn of Cincinnati's Chamber of Commerce President James M. Hutton to express his plaudits at the Crabbs dinner last week (see above), he suddenly switched talk from railroad terminals to hospitals. The name of another hero then came up?that of Colonel William Cooper Procter...