Word: justines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Lucien Coy Esty, 30, of New Haven, Conn., co-author (with Justin Spafford) of the first Ask Me Another book; Amherst alumnus, graduate student in English at Yale University; of pneumonia ; in New Haven...
...Bishop of La Rochelle had denounced the erection of this monument as "a public sin." Reason: the statue represented the most famed and also infamous son of Pons, the late Prime Minister Justin Louis Emile Combes 1903-1905. Due to his efforts the Roman Catholic Church was disestablished in France, and ever since Combes has been a hero to the parties of the Left and to the Clericals a dastard. As Edouard Herriot prepared to pull the unveiling cord, he was conscious that a crowd by no means wholly friendly surged around him. Raising his deep timbred voice in sonorous...
...Francois Villon was also made popular in a recent operetta The Vagabond King; with Dennis King as Hero. The musical play was based on a famed portrayal of Villon's life, If I Were King, by Justin Huntly McCarthy in which Edward H. Sothern thrilled Manhattan during 1901, 1908, and 1916. In this opus the poet is represented making a bargain with Louis XI, King of France, whereby they exchange places for a short period. There is no historical basis for this romantic situation, which stimulated Playwright McCarthy's famed poem...
...seeing Mr. Johnstone's cartoon, Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith of the Chicago Daily News telegraphed the World asking whether the cartoon was representative of New York "sentiment...
Another chef was the wayfaring Editor William Allen White of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. Far at sea, Editor White heard that his "withdrawal" of charges against Nominee Smith had been interpreted as a "retraction." No retractor, Editor White cabled his fellow Kansan, Henry Justin Allen, national publicity chief for Hooverism: "On the prostitution issue I proved my case, got a conviction and suspended the sentence. I only did this because I felt that a debate on the subject of harlotry was not worthy of a presidential campaign...