Word: davids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...played in the cast of The Girl from Utah in England, then in another play or two, then back to vaudeville, then in the Follies of 1915 and 1916. Ziegfeld, who liked her imitations, let her do one of Marie Odile, star of a Belasco play then current. David Belasco saw her and gave her the leading role next season in Polly with a Past...
...David Alfaro Siqueiros was a drummer boy in the Villa Revolution. Afterward the Carranza Government sent him to Europe to study. As inspirations he brought back photos of Italian primitives and U. S. oil derricks. When the Syndicate was formed Painter Siqueiros became its mouthpiece. Versatile, he edited the painters' newspaper, El Machete, made speeches at mass meetings, painted the Burial of a Workman which was stoned. For distraction he lay on his bed with a revolver and shot dotted-line pictures into the ceiling. At art school he ate the fruit and vegetable still-life models, saying "a real...
Prenatal Influences. The only prenatal influence which a mother has on her child is her own mental and physical wellbeing, emphasized Chattanooga's (Okla.) George E. Kerr and Oakland's David Hadden. They scoffed at superstitions having to do with snakes, spiders, rats, strawberries, gruesome scenes. Any mark a child bears is due to the thickening of its epidermis, a condition originating in its own cells...
Upon one side Generalissimo Smoot led the myrmidons of high-tariff-for-the-manufacturer. Then came stout Republicans one and all. Lieutenant-General James Eli Watson (supposed leader of the Republican army) and Major-General David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, spokesman of Secretary Mellon, labored incessantly to bring their forces stout-hearted to the fray, casting side glances at stragglers (those Republicans who every now and then hinted some doubt as to the sacredness of their cause). Across the aisle, Field Marshal Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina urged on the troops of low-tariff-for-the-consumers. Behind...
Well known to many a fly-fishing U. S. banker and moose-shooting U. S. broker, is shockheaded, barrel-chested David Courtois, Canadian guide. For years Guide Courtois was guardian of the Triton Club, exclusive Quebec fish and game preserve, one share of stock in which (necessary for membership) is worth $300. When not guiding U. S. and Canadian sportsmen, shock-headed Dave Courtois raises children, traps beaver. In August 1928, he loaded two canoes with flour, bacon and steel traps and traveled 450 miles up the Peribonka River from his frontier home in the village of Roberval with...