Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anything once or maybe twice. He had a thin-lipped, reckless mouth, downslanting 'possum eyes, the name of Bert Hall and the makings of a hero. After a few years on Mississippi steamboats, he became a dare-devil automobile racer, drifted to France. There with Aviation Pioneers Henri and Maurice Farman and Louis Blériot he learned to fly. In the Balkan War of 1913 he received $100 a day as pilot first for the Turks, then the Bulgarians. In the World War he was one of the eight original U. S. members of the Escadrille Lafayette...
Last month Tilden dangled the bait again, this time $25,000 down, $25,000 guaranteed profits from "byproducts" (i.e., endorsements). All Vines had to do was join Tilden and Frenchman Henri Cochet on an eight-month playing tour beginning next January with a Vines-Tilden match in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Tilden planned to call the tour a "professional Davis Cup series." He slyly reminded Vines that his amateur career, begun so spectacularly, seemed to have fizzled. Sadly Vines agreed that he "was dead, killed by too much tennis and too many officials." Last week he took...
More Bacardi seeped into the U. S. during Prohibition than before-40,000 cases annually. An enormously greater quantity of domestic rum was bootlegged under faked Bacardi labels and thus the trade name's value has soared. Last week it reported that President Henri Schueg, elderly son-in-law of the founding Facundo who holds the balance of power in the factional Bacardi family, was about to journey to Manhattan to settle once & for all who was to cash in on the 13 years of free advertising...
Plump, coquettish Adrienne Delamare, aged 12, wanted to marry brisk, bold-eyed Henri Pinteau, 17. Their parents not only approved-they begged that M. le President sanction by special dispensation a child marriage in violation of French law. M. le President considered the reason: a pink and squawling babe safely born Aug. 28 at which time he weighed nine pounds. "Mon Dieu," murmured President Lebrun, "Est-ce possible...
...Republic bowed to a fact of nature. The law, he decreed, should in this case be set aside. Proud 12-year-old Adrienne Delamare announced that she will be married Oct. 7 by the Mayor of Catillon. "She will be the Youngest Wife in France," boasted bold Henri Pinteau, "and I shall be the Youngest Husband...