Word: naming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...policies (notably curtailment of the practice of expropriating large estates and turning them over to the peasantry). In thunderous denunciation of President Portes Gil and Candidate Rubio last week, he shouted that as his chances of election grew their agents were plotting to spring a fake revolution in his name, which the Government would use as a pretext for calling off the election. Paradoxically he also threatened: "If the count goes against me and yet I consider myself to have been elected I will accept the will of the people...
Friends of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson were just as surprised as friends of Irene Bordoni, musicomedienne (Paris), to see Mrs. Wilson's name under Miss Bordoni's picture by mistake in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Last week's news of the two ladies...
Count Andreas Bethlen, youngest son of Hungarian Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen, was sentenced in Budapest to three days State detention for sabre-hacking a Count Almassy in a duel. For his part in the duel, which originated in a bar when a lady's name was lightly mentioned, Count Almassy will serve two days State detention?confinement under supervision with privilege of receiving guests, eating self-provided food...
...Other critics had been kinder to Miss Foster. When Playwright Don Mullaly's Conscience opened in Manhattan, in 1924, Actress Foster made a hit, saw her name in lights...
...Gordons were the only Negroes in White Sulphur Springs, Mont. At the Springs was a "sportin' house" Madame. Her name was Big Maude. Unlike her kind, she was not a fighter, could not beat policemen. She was genteel, of noble English descent (her story), and wise. She charged more for drinks than any of her competitors. The miners and farmers marveled at the way her four girls dressed. Big Maude asked Taylor Gordon to work for her. He agreed, ran errands for the girls, served drinks, wore brass buttons and blue coat, received good wages, liked...