Word: protegee
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For William M. Butler, like Mr. Coolidge, was in days gone by a protege of the late Senator Winthrop Murray Crane. Both have quiet unostentatious ways of doing things, both can spare words, both have a certain primitive honesty. Butler, now gray, portly, 63, wearer of double glasses, comes of...
When Congress opens, the proposed Amendment to the Constitution will be introduced in both Houses. Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas will make the introduction in the Senate. In the House the Amendment will be introduced by Senator Curtis' protege, Daniel Read Anthony, Jr., who secured the seat which Mr...
At Indianapolis Firpo staggered under the first serious blow he has encountered in the U. S.-a $2,000 jolt in the pocketbook from Jack Druley, who promoted his exhibition with Joe Downey, of Columbus, O. The furry financier, who saw this wallop coming when Druley paid only half of...
Berlin again?utter poverty?furious labor, this time on a novel?failure once more?an attempt as a tutor ? as an actor ? as a tutor again, and this time an interval of peace, of what was almost luxury, as the protege of a rich banker. Then a deliberate...
Dispatches from Italy announce that Don Lorenzo Perosi, head of the Vatican Choir, has been judged insane by the Italian courts, and has been placed in the custody of his brother. This is the culmination of series of extraordinary episodes, which, curiously have found little space in the American press...