Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage, was her first noteworthy venture in the cinema. She had the role of a French peasant girl who takes up with a thief and turns prostitute to support her son. Like Helen Hayes, Lynn Fontanne made her debut in cinema last year and her performance in The Guardsman was one of three nominated for the Academy's award. The third was aged Marie Dressier, who won last year and whose acting in Emma ranked second to Helen Hayes's in the 850 Academy members' vote this year...
...House investigators of the A. M. A. lobby publicly flayed him for capitalizing on his personal Congressional contacts. Laughing off a scandal which would have buried a less brazen politician, he wriggled into the Senate in 1916 when Indiana's Benjamin Shively suddenly died. There as an Old Guardsman he has served continuously since. Twice he defeated the late Thomas Taggart, Indiana's Democratic boss, to hold his seat. For political support he has shrewdly ridden every popular wind, from the Anti-Saloon League to the Ku Klux Klan which has blown over the Indiana electorate. A fixture...
...King George, who hides his German light under a bushel and has changed his name to Windsor, was not there. Neither were any of his sons. But His Majesty's first cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, strode up the aisle in the tight scarlet of a British guardsman. Deposed Kaiser Wilhelm was represented by his grandson Prince Wilhelm, in field grey topped by a steel helmet. Two most exalted shadows came in person. They were mystic, crystal-gazing Ferdinand, a Coburg who abdicated as Tsar of Bulgaria in favor of his son (the present Tsar Boris) and grim...
...Received from Missouri's Barton a bill to pay Missouri 43? expended on a National Guardsman. Estimated cost of printing and passing the measure: $20. ¶Eulogized Iowa's Haugen, senior member of the House in point of continuous service (33 years...