Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proceedings in what was literally an open session and a standing vote. And the five articles of complaint are but a fire-screen behind which rages the feeling against efficient Mrs. Hammonds, the Governor's secretary, who is alleged to combine the more interesting qualities of Rasputin and Mme. de Maintenon. Her influence is attributed to the fact that she is the head of her employer's chapter of the Order of Rosicrucians. Of this order, whose members have a proper disregard of temporal things extending in this instance to include the legislature, the Wandering Jew is the most famous...
King Albert of Belgium, who does all he can to promote the breeding of sturdy Belgian draft horses, sent Prince Albert de Ligne, Belgian ambassador to the U. S., to offer a cup at the Live Stock exposition. Charles A. Wentz of Kirby, Ohio, won it with his four-year-old Belgian stallion Lordeau II. Evert King of Chicago owns the best stallion, Waynesdale King. Champion last year also, Waynesdale King could not compete for King Albert...
...willing to act only with his teeth or his hair, to duplicate the excellence of his performance in The Big Parade. But his inadequacies are minor and partly made evident by contrast. Good handling of minor parts by George Fawcett, Brandon Hurst, Emily Fitzroy and Philippe de Lacy, intelligent photography, brilliant direction are enough for any picture that includes such a performance as that supplied by Actress Garbo. The Wreck of the Hesperus, Longfellow's famed poem in its apparently rapid journey through the studios to the screen, has acquired a hero, a horse and a happy ending...
...CALAMITY JANE AND THE LADY WILDCATS-Duncan Aikman-Henry Holt ($3). Ladies a la carte make up this racy repast served on a cloth flamboyantly patterned with genuine early day Westernism. Calamity Jane forms the pièce de resistance-"comfortable, jovial, uncomplaining, baudily at ease in her blowsy element," Calam' reels through 51 years of life with husky frontiersmen, bullwhackers, soldiers, miners, gathered from the far reaches of Virginia City, Deadwood Gulch, Cheyenne, the Black Hills-an untutored rebel against the codes, with the creed of "to hell with the consequences" to guide her in a life rumbling...
...balloting, together with announcement of the date for the nomination and election of the second group of 1928 officers, were made known last night by the Nominating Committee. The Junior Committee in charge of the balloting is headed by A. R. Sweezy and includes Morton Cole, James De Normandie, P. I. Dunne, J. K. Fairbank, A. H. Harlow, J. W. McPherson, Robert Reinhart, P. H. Rhinelander, J. H. Sachs, H. F. Schwarz, R. A. Stout, W. S. Tower, R. G. West, and W. S. Youngman. After the close of the polls the same committee will count the ballots...