Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this power was suddenly switched like a high-voltage current into St. George's some weeks ago, the object being to elect one Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter. This inoffensive knight, the irregular Conservative candidate, was not originally the presslords' mannikin. He entered the lists at St. George's supported by a dignified group of manufacturers who wanted to air the issue of high protective tariffs v. low protective tariff or "safeguarding." Sir Ernest Petter was to advocate high tariffs, and the regular Conservative candidate. Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, husband of beauteous Lady Diana Manners, would of course support "safeguarding...
...pictured Napoleon as a lecherous little character beloved by many beautiful women. It is also natural that the dramatist should have imagined that any other Frenchman who looked exactly like Napoleon would possess the same endearing attributes. The other Frenchman in Herr Berstl's play is small, goatlike Ernest Truex, who was last seen stamping around and fidgeting for Hortence Alden in Lysistrata...
...footnote to last month's liquor raids at the University of Michigan (TIME, Feb. 23) was offered last week by President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth College. To Dartmouth alumni in Chicago he said: "There seems to be a great discussion about the raiding of college fraternity houses. They shouldn't raid college fraternities unless they are going to raid country clubs and other clubs on the outside. The two stand in exactly the same position and I notice whenever I enter a club that a man who really wants a drink invariably gets...
Engaged. Count Henri de Castellane, Harvard student with the class of 1925, son of Vice President Count Stanislas de Castellane of the French Chamber of Deputies, nephew of the Marquis Marie Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane who was once husband of Anna Gould (she is now Duchesse de Talleyrand); and Sylvia de Castilleja de Guzman, daughter of the Conde de Castilleja de Guzman of Spain...
Praiseworthy were Gifford Beal's Men with Lobster Pots; Leon Krolls portrait of a baby; Lizabeth Paxton's Deshabille; Ernest Lawson's Colorado Ranch. Of the show as a whole, New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell commented: "It often seems as if these artists had been snowed under in the blizzard of 1888-whose 43rd anniversary has just been marked-and emerging at last from the drifts were to be seen taking up life again just where they left it. Most of the sculpture is too discouraging for words...