Word: pollock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Cunarder Berengaria warped up to her pier at Manhattan last week, pressmen surrounded that jovial former pressman, that internationally popular bon viveur, the returning U. S. Ambassador to Spain, Alexander Pollock Moore. When Mr. Moore departed for Spain he was perhaps best known as widower of Lillian Russell. He had not been in Spain six months, however, when it was reported that he habitually addressed el Rey Alfonso as "Chief" and the Duke of Alba as "Jimmy...
...taxi whose driver shrilly squawked his little bulb horn whizzed up to the door. Out stepped the returning U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime husband of the late Lillian Russell. Mr. Moore was welcomed with acclaim. From his native Pittsburgh to Madrid he is known as a good fellow cast in the Gargantuan mold...
...Madrid el Rey Alfonso XIII embraced that genial Pittsburgher, Alexander Pollock Moore, U. S. Ambassador to Spain, devoted husband of the late Lillian Russell. Mr. Moore, who is said to address Alfonso as "Chief" and the Duke of Alba as "Jimmy," had just officially informed his royal friend that he was about to resign as Ambassador and return...
...Alexander Pollock Moore, U. S. Ambassador to Spain, who recently arrived at Tetuan, was entertained by General Miguel Primo de Rivera at a banquet given in his honor. Present were the Grand Vizier and the chief resident Spanish officers and officials. General de Rivera commented upon the fact that he had just turned over the Spanish High Command in Morocco to General Sanjurjo; later he issued a printed address to the troops in which he described their new leader as "my companion in arms for 33 years," and extolled his virtues...
...Enemy. Of all the shrewd artificers of the Theatre there is none in this country superior to Channing Pollock. In The Fool he made a million dollars (for someone) and made a million people weep by employing the obvious emotional devices of religion in a commercial play. He has used the correspondingly obvious emotional devices of war in The Enemy and will probably reap vast rewards. To one practiced in the Theatre or toa layman fastidious in the matter of emotional stimuli, it will sound like the cry of wolf, wolf. And, curiously enough, Mr. Pollock is said to believe...