Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there several months, painting most of the time. In the mid-90s 'Ennry began to drink seriously. A great artist but no gourmet, he liked to swig a mixture of Scotch whiskey, rum, absinthe and cheap brandy. Paris dandies of his day frequently carried sword canes; the Vicomte de Toulouse-Lautrec's cane held liquor. In 1899 he was confined in a sanatorium as an alcoholic, was led out in the company of a guard. After 'Ennry had hobbled back with the guard blind drunk behind him, the guard was changed. In 1901, his health broken from...
...de bad guy-they call him One-Eye Pete-and is he bad-Madonna!" ¶ "Here's how your stomach feels when you ride in one of them [rollercoaster] cars...
...education. Flyer Knight, now cadaverous, soulful-looking and 44, has more transport hours and miles to his record than any pilot in the U. S. ¶ One night last week, just after announcing his engagement to a Hampshire typist, Britain's Flying Officer A. E. Clouston, using the De Havilland Comet airplane that won 1934's England-Australia derby, took off from Croydon with Mrs. Betty Kirby-Green, 32-year-old London club hostess, financed by a champagne raffle, speed-bound for the Cape of Good Hope. The weary pair climbed out of their Comet at Capetown...
Died. Philip Alexius Laslo de Lombos, 68, academic Hungarian painter who had done portraits of Pope Leo XIII, former Kaiser Wilhelm, Presidents Harding & Hoover, King Edward VII, Premier Mussolini; of heart disease; in London. During the War when he, a British citizen, sent money to a friend in Hungary, he was convicted of "trading with the enemy," clapped into jail...
Married. Jefferson Caffery, 50, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil, to Gertrude Mc-Carthy, Chicago socialite daughter of the late Colonel Daniel E. McCarthy, onetime A. E. F. chief quartermaster; in Rio de Janeiro...