Word: henry
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cochet v. Tilden. Henri Cochet started like the cyclone that defeated Tilden in the U. S. lawn championships last summer. But Tilden on his peak was undisturbed, won three straight sets. Gallant in victory, he refused to accept the umpire's decisions which went against Cochet. On this day the crowd applauded Tilden...
...those sweethearts in every port to her own suddenly acquired opulence. In addition to merry tunes, jolly chorus, salty high-spirits, the show has the rarest quality of the season-humor. The Thief. In her fourth attempt of the year, talented Alice Brady has hit upon a revival. Henri Bernstein's play was written two decades ago, in the era that demanded of the theatre a Big Scene with plenty of soft sweetness sandwiched in and around. The heroine steals from a wealthy, extravagant friend, in order to dress so well that her husband (Lionel Atwill) will always love...
...boys in France"-an effective plea, considering the fact that Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti were pacifists as well as radicals. 1921-1927. Motions for a new trial were repeatedly turned down, while radicals flung bombs at many a U. S. embassy, while liberals such as Anatole France, Romain Rolland, Henri Barbusse, Fritz Kreisler, Albert Einstein protested against the injustice being done to the fish peddler and the shoemaker. . . . Mr. Sacco went on a month's hunger strike. . . . Mrs. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, wife of the U. S. Supreme Court Justice, turned over her Dedham home to Mrs. Sacco so that...
Next day, one Jean Henri Baptiste Brieux, son of a poor kiosk woman, entered several shops where religious knick-knacks were on sale, seized and dashed upon the ground some two dozen cheap plaster figurines of the Blessed Virgin. Arrested, he explained: "In revenge for 30 copies of La Vie Parisienne and nine of Le Sourire seized from my mother and torn up by the Abbé Bethlehem, I smashed a few of those idolatrous images sold by the accomplices of priesthood. They seem to me fully as poisonous to the soul as any magazine my mother ever sold...
Today, though many of the Rothschilds still play the game at which they cannot lose, there are some members of the family who have turned from gold to other interests. Most prominent of these is Baron Henri de Rothschild, M. D., of Paris. He considers himself a physician, an author a sportsman?forgets the golden touch of Jewry except when he flings down a million francs here, or 40 million there in philanthropy...