Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Count Von Bernstorff (onetime German Ambassador to the U.S.): "He was the most honest pacifist I ever...
...Senator Count Cippico, speaking a la Fascismo, declared that war was a "cruel necessity." "Each nation," said he, "has to defend its own right to exist, to remedy the defects of its geographical, political or economic situation in the world, to make good its own individual civilization as opposed to the inferior civilizations of other peoples...
...Story. At the end of this book, two portraits hang in an old city house. Out of one frame, in white muslin and blue sash, looks a beguiling red-headed Civil War nurse as she was just before she sacked an Italian count, married an ardent young mechanic and quit her patroon relatives to live in the young West...
...Lover. Irene Rich can make almost anything in the cinema seem fairly good. Which may make her a good actress or may prove that routine picture plots are better than they seem. This one certainly seems sloppy enough. It is all about an unloved wife and a Hungarian count. If you have enjoyed Irene Rich doing this sort of thing before, there is probably no reason for warning...
...York, Colyumnist Don Marquis, Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, Actor Charles Winninger, Mrs. Charles Winninger (stage name: Blanche Ring), Publicist Bruce Barton, Jackie Coogan. The collection was entitled A Log of Laughter, One Laugh A Day. Provided they do not get stranded in the North, MacMillan and friends can count upon one loud laugh per day until the return. Specimen joke: "A Jew was solving a crossword puzzle. He said to his family: 'Give me a word in one letter that means a food, and it isn't T. Quick. Give up? X.' (Meaning eggs for those...