Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vacationing in Paris, Chesley W. Jurney, Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate, remarked that he would like to visit the French Senate, said that he also wanted some information for U. S. friends organizing a wine agency. Helpful Leon Douarche of the French Government's wine bureau introduced him to the Senate Wine Commission, several Senators from the wine regions. Next morning Paris newspapers front-paged Sergeant-at-Arms Jurney as the "Secretaire-General of the American Senate, who has been charged by his Government to establish an agency for the importation of French wines, which will...
Marie Thurber Judith Allen Bernard Fred (Ric) Page Mrs. Henry Wilson Dorothy Quincy Mrs. (Ma) Thurber Ethel Arden Mr. (Pa) Thurber Thaddeus Gray David Tuttle Jack Egan Tommy Mills Leon Janney...
...leading man of this play, Mr. Leon Janney, self or publicity-director styled movie star, is a beautiful blonde baby-faced boy of an apparent sixteen years. Mr. Janney handicaps his baby face with a nasal contralto voice. Mr. Janney would have an unsuccessful play at the Copley Theatre in Boston in his debit column, were it not for the inimitable sang-froid of Mr. Jack Egan, who, as the all-human political boss of Katonsville, Maryland, steals the show from the rest of the Katonsvillians, and makes an evening spent at the Copley a vaguely good thing...
This thesis is expounded: a man can win a woman only through the subtle workings of that mysterious thing called Romance; and Romance is incompatible with parental approval of the match. Ergo. Mr. Leon Janney, favored by the adenoidal mother and the crustacean father of the big-hipped , must insult, get drunk, and make himself generally obnoxious before he can win their disfavor and the hand of the sought-for female. It all works out. The insufferable suitor Bernie, with his green and Yellow roadster and his blatant familiarities, is foiled in the end, and the baby-faced Tommy gains...
Theodore Roosevelt, 3d, '36 and Henry C. Thacher '34 have been moved up from the Jayvees to the Varsity squad and will be available as substitutes for the halfback positions, along with Edward Motley, Jr. '36, ordinarily a forward player. Carr will again start Leon H. Manheimer '36 and Richard S. Baxter '34 in the outside positions...