Word: juan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...soldier. It made him the most beloved and the most hated of any public man in America. This restless dynamic spirit carried him from the White House to the jungles of Africa and South America, from ranching on the western praries to leading his men in action at San Juan Hill. His fearless Americanism in the Venizuelan trouble with Germany made the Kaiser exclaim afterwards, at the height of his power, that Roosevelt was the one man in the world he feared...
...Percy Jennings gave a very realistic representation of that cheerful, red headed little Irishman of the type which seems to have almost disappeared in these days of Teuton plots and Sinn Feiners. Mr. Leon Gordon, formerly of the Henry Jewett Players, took the part of Bert, the Don Juan of the trio, the man "with a girl in every trench." His interpretation of the part was faultless but he suffered from being somewhat too immaculate for a Tommy at the front...
Colonel Roosevelt, President of the United States for seven years, hero of the battle of San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, big-game hunter, and scholar attained a rank higher than any graduate of the University. He was born in New York City October 27, 1858, and prepared for College with private teachers. In the University he became one of the most prominent men in his class. After his graduation in 1880 he studied one year at the Columbia Law School...
...better to be a young am in this generation than to have fought with Don Juan or with Godfrey in the Crusades. It is better to die, not knowing the culmination of these wars, yet playing a not ignoble part in them, than to have lived during a barren century of unepochal years...
...encounter in Mr. Langdon Mitchell's adaptation of "Pendennis." Superficially it is attained, owing to the well known talent in production of Mr. Iden Payne. Settings, costumes, etc., are arranged to the key of 1830, the age of tasseled canes and wonderful waistcoats, when a copy of Don Juan lay on the dressing tables of ladies of fashion; a picture of old England in its autumn, smiling through the mist of factory smoke just beginning to rise. Unfortunately a production set in so delightful a key has to be something more than a mere picture, or even a mere dramatization...