Word: fauntleroy
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...Earle Brownell Babcock, associate director of the European centre of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Cinemactor Charles ("Buddy") Rogers. A chocolate-brown third class passenger eclipsed in news value the entire first and second class. As he stepped ashore, "The Black Eagle of Harlem," Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "The Negro Lindbergh," faced batteries of press cameras, eloquently told his tale...
...prove his patriotic contention the Emperor had imported and naturalized as one of his subjects "The Black Eagle of Harlem," Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "The Negro Lindbergh" (TIME, Nov. 3). Before the white Coronation guests, including George V's pallid third son, the Duke of Gloucester, the black ace was to take off and do stunts with an airplane presented to His Majesty by the daughter of H. Gordon Selfridge, London drygoods tycoon. "But don't you try to fly that airship before my Coronation day, Colonel!" commanded His Majesty, Power of Trinity...
...inveterate romancer and everything he writes he invests with storybook sweetnesses which delight some people, make others feel bilious. The intrusion of severe ethical concerns into Mr. Milne's pink and downy world would be as incongruous as the speculations of Kant in the mouth of a Fauntleroy. Yet that is what occurs in his newest play...
Publicity has apparently done the boy no harm. Simply, with great poise, he came on the stage last week?a tiny picture child in his Lord Fauntleroy suit, white socks, ankle-ties. Carefully he sounded his strings, began Vieuxtemps' Fantasia Appassionata, followed with Mozart's A Major Concerto, Paganini's D Major and a concluding short group. Not only does Ruggiero play trills and double stops with a master's assurance, but his tone is finished, of great purity. Some critics pronounced him greater than Yehudi Menuhin. All considered him more important than the season's other violin prodigies?Giula...
...days prior he had eluded an automobile, run afoul of a street car, suffered a fractured skull, broken ribs. His body lay in state in the Milwaukee City Hall. Municipal offices were closed the day of his funeral. He it was who had nursed Wisconsin Socialism from a pink Fauntleroy to a ruddy, vote-mighty brawnyman...