Word: proteg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious extravaganza." But Beaver-brook's life has been so rich in extravaganza that the fictitious is not always obvious. Ottercove rides in a Winged Chariot, a comfortable limousine that darts down London streets or rises quietly into the air far above traffic and turmoil. He promises Protegé Dickon (Gerhardi himself in disguise) his greatest evening paper as wedding present, but reneges. He begets a son of Eva, whom he marries to get the better of her other lovers. Eva who inherits her Russian mother's charming promiscuity was accustomed to arrive penniless at some unfortunate town...
Sued for annulment. Mrs. Anna Laura Barnett, of Los Angeles, wife of Jackson Barnett, multi-millionaire Okla homa Indian, ward of the U. S. Government; by the U. S. on behalf of its protegé. The U. S. alleges that by the use of ''petting . . . seductive smiles" Mrs. Barnett kidnaped her husband, married him twice (in Kansas, and in Missouri) in expectation of the $500,000 gift of the government authorized by Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall for Barnett...
...said to be one of the strongest influences keeping Mrs. McCormick in politics. Other influences are Mrs. McCormick's unboastful estimate of her own undoubted political acumen; her experience since 1924 as Republican National Committeewoman from Illinois; and heredity. In Illinois, she will run for nomination as the protegée of well-entrenched Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, against Congressman Henry R. Rathbone who did not support Mayor Thompson in his loud "100% American" campaign last year, and against Congressman Richard Yates...
...song. In 1859 at Osawatomie, famed Horace Greeley addressed the convention which was beginning to organize the Republican Party in Kansas. In 1910 at Osawatomie, Theodore Roosevelt, back from hunting wild animals in Africa, made a speech on "New Nationalism," which loudly thumped the doings of his former proteg; William Howard Taft, and led to the forming in 1912 of the Progressive or "Bull Moose" party. -One who by officious interference defeats another's plan...
...well they might. A native of Detroit, Dr. Scott was for nine years a student and protegé of no less a personage than the late Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, wizened wizard of the General Electric Co. at Schenectady, N. Y., in whose laboratory more than once there was manufactured a miniature thunderstorm with artificial lightning...