Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover instructed Secretary of State Stimson to sail this week for Geneva where he will spend a fortnight at the League of Nations Disarmament Conference. Statesman Stimson hoped the sea trip would help him recover from an attack of influenza. Twice last week President Hoover conferred with Norman Hezekiah Davis, a U. S. delegate at the Geneva parley...
...Tailteann Games, in Dublin, June 29 to July 15. Named for Queen Taile, the games were legendarily started by Lugh the Long Arm in 600 B. C., held regularly till the Norman era. They were revived in 1924, include arts, crafts, drama, music as well as track and field competitions...
...excepting Norman Bel-Geddes, a genius whose accent usually obscures the individuality of the playwrights he stages, Robert Edmond ("Bobby") Jones is the ablest designer of the U. S. theatre. Audiences will long recall his skillful settings for The Green Pastures, Mourning Becomes Electro, The Emperor Jones and a hundred other plays, without having been distracted from the quality of the plays themselves. Robert Edmond Jones, at 28, made a sensation with sets and costumes he designed for Granville Barker's pro duction of The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife. Later he became associated with Arthur Hopkins...
...Hopewell, Col. H. Norman Schwartz-kopf of the State Police deflated the triumvirate's connection with the case by announcing: "They visited Colonel Lindbergh on Wednesday night and gave him information which, on being investigated, was found to have no specific significance in this investigation...
...Kansas City, Norman D. Hunt, deaf mute, was jealous of the attentions which his friend, Louis Coleman, deaf, showed his wife. Suspicious, he went to Louis Coleman and demanded in sign language: "Where were you at noon today?" "None of your business!" Coleman signalled back. Pulling a pistol, Deaf Mute Hunt shot Louis Coleman dead, marched to a police station, pushed a note across the sergeant's desk: "I shot a man on Monroe Street, [signed] Norman D. Hunt...