Word: hughes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That fiery apostle of American literary independence, Mr. H. L. (never Henry Louis!) Mencken, is at it again. He joins battle this time with Hugh Walpole in an open letter in the December Bookman in defense of what the Englishman had described in the November issue as "a scream and a yell on your part because of the agonozing decadence of contemporary English literature...
DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S Zoo-Hugh Lofting - Stokes ($2.50). The now famous Doctor (he is appearing in the fifth book of his series) brings together a marvelous zoo in which many exciting things happen. Illustrated...
Then the defense began to call its witnesses. The first called was Brigadier General Amos A. Fries, Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service. He was called to refute a statement by Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum, Assistant Chief of Staff, that it would take 5,530 airplanes and 9,573,000 pounds of mustard gas to force the evacuation of the District of Columbia. General Fries believed that 1,000 airplanes and 40,000 pounds of tear gas would get rid of the civil population. Major Carl Spatz, D.S.C., flyer, told the Court that Air service equipment is "obsolete...
...Died. Hugh Antoine D'Arcy, 82, author of "The Face upon the (Barroom) Floor," in Manhattan, of chronic bronchitis...
...Angeles, in the days when film stars thought nothing of scraping segments of mulberry pastry from their well-shaped noses. She spent two years with the Ziegfeld organization. After seven months of study abroad, she made her debut in Vienna as Marguerite, had a London triumph in Hugh the Drover and an even more sensational one in Paris in The Merry Widow. When her Metropolitan contract was announced, every paper blared EX-FOLLIES GIRL TO STAR IN OPERA. Tradition dictates that one out of every three Follies girls must be a preacher's daughter. Mary Lewis was adopted when...