Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...qualification for the rough-and-tumble of life in Washington committee rooms. This was interpreted as a gentle explanation of why Joseph Warren Fordney, onetime (1899-1923) Michigan Representative, had been passed by. Mr. Fordney, whose massive girth and demeanor are well suited to his reputation as an Old Guardsman, is 74 years...
...controversy was the Treasury Department v. the Navy Department. Secretary Mellon wrote a long, tart letter to Secretary Wilbur, reviewing the evidence and refusing to let any blame attach to Coast Guardsman Baylis. A like issue was joined by Navy men in defense of Lieut. Commander Jones. With the Treasury Department on the Paulding's side and with Jones unhappily dead, one of these arguments seemed academic, the other lamentable and futile...
Greatest of living Hungarian dramatists, slyest of cynics, surest of technicians, he has had successful plays in Manhattan theatres almost continuously since the U. S. premiere of Liliom (1921). Successes: The Swan, The Guardsman, The Play's the Thing, and many another...
...Headed by George Gaul and Florence Eldridge in The Guardsman, Mr. Pirn Passes...
...Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, etc., playing The Guardsman, Pygmalion, The Second Man, The Doctor's Dilemma...