Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skilfully do Fay Bainter and John Halliday play their parts that the anger, folly, fatigue, cowardice, love, lies and bravery of Maurice and Valerie Theulot burn brightly, with unsteady continuity, like candles in a room of woven draughts...
Some salve to Dutch sensibilities has been the ownership of the Press and News. For the Press passed, in 1911, into the hands of able, blunt Judge Lynn John Arnold, who published it for the Clark family (Singer Sewing Machines) of Cooperstown. Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan Hun, descendant of brownest, trimmest Albany ancestors. Many a cousin, many an inlaw, would write indignantly to Owner Stephen when the Press, and later the News, failed to be brown and trim...
Quail are good to eat on toast, their little paws pointing like small handles over their plump stomachs. They should be hunted in the south and will be this year by Gen. John J. Pershing, Vice President Dawes, and perhaps Irvin S. Cobb. President Coolidge at this moment has a special setter in training, for what purpose no one knows, but possibly for quail hunting...
...happily did Anaconda appear to be sitting on the top of the copper heap that few observers were conscious, last week, of Anaconda's troubles. But Chairman of the Board John D. Ryan and President Cornelius F. Kelly knew that, prosperity or no prosperity, two thorns remained in the side of Anaconda to irritate, exasperate. One thorn was George Campbell Carson. The other was William A. Clark...
...battle for the governorship was the chief issue, last week, between the two factions. Clark is supporting Republican Wellington D. Rankin. Anaconda aids the campaign for re-election of Governor John E. Erickson, Democrat. Clark's Free Press exulted, last week, when Candidate Rankin spurned the "Aid of a Kept Press as Kiss of Death." Anaconda's Standard headlined: MUNCHAUSEN A PILLAR OF TRUTH COMPARED TO CLARK. Listed in the story were 6 "major, frenzied, malicious Clark lies." The sixth was "the statement made daily by the Clark newspaper that it is devoted solely to the interests...