Word: petitioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must be admitted that Chee-Chee, though sometimes cute and always dirty, is not consistently amusing. Herbert Fields deduced the book from Charles Petit's novel. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee. Helen Ford as Chee-Chee and Betty Starbuck as Li-Li-Wee were respectively arch and charming. George Hassell squealed and grunted in cagey fashion as the Grand Eunuch. Chee-Chee would be funnier...
...Road. Only a French journalist could chatter of White Slavery with such inoffensive skimming swiftness as Monsieur Albert Londres has attained in The Road to Buenos Ayres. The man is a magpie?a shrewd one?and a correspondent of Le Petit Parisien. When Argentine passport officials asked dapper Magpie Londres why he proposed to land at Buenos Aires, he blithely chirped: "Mes amis, I have come to see your souteneurs, your pimps...
...with 15 editions a day, with 18,000 out-of-town distributing agents, with a reputation built on conservatism rather than sensationalism, is in the hands of a woman. U. S. born and bred Mme. Paul Dupuy (née Helen Browne of Manhattan) took charge of the Petit Parisien last year when her husband died. Last week, recovering from an operation, she sat in bed, talked into a telephone, directed her editors to put such-and-such on the front page, to ignore so-and-so. U. S. correspondents called at her Paris apartment and she told them...
...Grand Jury of the District of Columbia for a second week withheld its action on the evidence that Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair and friends had shadowed the petit jury which was trying him for criminal conspiracy, and the further evidence that Detective William J. Burns and aides had perjured themselves in an effort to impugn U. S. agents for jury-tampering (TIME, Oct. 31 et seq.). But the involved Fall-Sinclair oil scandals were not altogether without further lucubrations last week...
This was the first time the South Atlantic had ever been flown from east to west without stopover. Colonel de Pinedo, Italian aviator, de Beires and Vabral had alighted on islands between the continents. St. Roman, Mouneyres and Petit, like Nungesser & Coli, had flown away and never again been seen...