Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into five figures. America had Blakelock, painter of dark, glowing Indian encampments, who was committed to an insane asylum and kept in for the greater part of his life. It is well for the Fauves* of Paris that solicitous friends and relatives never sought court injunctions. Wild-beast Henri Matisse is still considered batty by many a staid U. S. art critic...
Round Two, Snowy-bearded, patriarchially irate French Finance Minister Henri Cheron rose to hurl a counter ultimatum: "There can be no thought of making a division of annuities different from that of the Young Plan. Mr. Snowden's proposal is not acceptable...
Round Three. As the Latins refused to yield to his demands, the little lame Yorkshireman waxed in spleen, finally dived into a clinch. In arguing against Mr. Snowden a whole sheaf of figures had been cited by Finance Minister Henri Cheron, and the Frenchman punched home his point with a citation from the British Balfour Note...
Gloria Swanson, cinemactress, Europe-bound to see her latest husband, James Henri la Baily de la Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye, squealed with delight at a present in her steamer stateroom. Within a gilt-edged, blue-ribboned box, wreathed with laurel, lay an antique bottle labelled: Bethlehem Rye, Guaranteed Twenty Years Old. She sent for charged water, ice, glasses, corkscrew. She held the bottle to the light to admire its tawny contents. The bottle was empty...
...person of William Tatem Tilden, II., playing in what was advertised as his last international match, made a small bet with Player Henri Cochet of France and rushed into the first singles match with a brave effort at speed and power. Player Cochet won the bet in precisely 50 minutes...