Word: henchman
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...loneliest place in England," is engaged in tracking down an elderly emerald thief who lives in a tower equipped with bloodhounds, secret passages, a beautiful girl, and a masked hunchback with a penchant for strangling people with his bare hands. Typical shot: the criminal-in-chief dropping a rebellious henchman through a trapdoor into quicksand...
When a manufacturer accepts an order, whether it be to his liking or not, that order must be filled. In such a curiously commercial predicament is Deems Taylor, manufacturer of musical criticism and music. After his King's Henchman had had a fair success three years ago, he was commissioned to write a second opera for the Metropolitan Opera Company. Since that time he has ostensibly been a musical handyman, editing Musical America, which under his regime went bankrupt, writing miscellaneous articles for magazines, expounding opera on the radio (TIME, Nov. 18). In secret he has struggled with the commissioned...
...caught the eye of the boss-politician of central France, famed Edouard Herriot, spellbinding Mayor of Lyons. Edouard gave Edouard a leg up into the Chamber of Deputies in 1919, and fora time Edouard toadied to Edouard in return. When Mayor Herriot became Prime Minister in 1924 he popped Henchman Daladier into the Ministry of Colonies, later got him the portfolio of War in the Cabinet of statesman-mathematician Paul Painleve...
Housepainter Havemann, a faithful henchman of Dr. Stresemann's People's Party, failed to get into the Reichstag when he stood for election a year ago last Spring. Therefore he was on the panel of defeated candidates from which Reichstag vacancies must be filled under German law. The party of him whose seat is vacated is allowed to choose his successor from the panel. Last week it merely chanced that lucky Housepainter Havemann stood first on the People's Party's list of disgruntled gillies slated for easy honors...
...President made a brief announcement that following the recommendation of the Attorney-General he would issue no pardon to Oilman Harry F. Sinclair, in jail for contempt of Senate (refusing to answer questions) and of court (jury shadowing), or to Henry Mason Day, Mr. Sinclair's henchman. Day has a passport to go to Europe next month when he will be released in the regular course of events. Sinclair must wait till November, in spite of his plea that his weight has fallen from 200 Ibs. to 185 Ibs., that stockholders are suffering from his absence...