Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mason and an elder of a dominant U. S. church (Presbyterian) ; the man who reigns magisterially over a dominant U. S. industry (cinema). Mr. Hays helped open a "social club" for the cinema trade in Manhattan last week. New York's Mayor, trig, glib James John Walker, was also present. In the course of his speech, Mr. Hays indicated Mayor Walker, grew intense and said...
Marshal Pilsudski who is now gulping mineral water at a Rumanian spa, "The Baths of Hercules," did not repudiate the suggestion of a Crown. Poland was of truly Imperial dimensions circa 1650 in the great days of Ladislas IV and John Casimir...
Painter Sir John Lavery (who uses green in his flesh colors) was commissioned by the Irish Free State Government to paint a colleen. The painting would be reproduced on banknotes. Therefore, the colleen must be "the ideal type of Irish girlhood...
Painter Sir John went to his wife whom he often uses as a model, told her she would have to sit again, painted her with a shawl over her head...
Last week the banknotes appeared. Smart newsmen recognized Sir John's model-wife. Irishmen studied their money. They learned that Lady Lavery is not in her girlhood, neither is she Irish. She was the widow of Mr. Edward Livingston Trudeau of New York when Sir John married her 18 years ago. And she is from Chicago, U. S. A. Irishmen became vexed...