Word: sented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Their reactions form the basis of the play. They snarl, they laugh, they fight, they cower, they die. Standing out among them is one who hopes for death. He has drowned cowardice with whiskey. He has nothing for which to live. On the eve of the attack there is sent to his company the brother of the girl he loves−the last person in the world he wants to see him. In the end it is the youngster, eager for life, who dies. The other goes out to face the attack...
...Griffin, a Catholic couple who lived in a frame house near the railroad station of Texarkana, Tex., sent their daughter Corinne to the Sacred Heart Convent in New Orleans. When the girl, unanimously elected Queen of the Mardi Gras, went to California to work in the movies, her mother went along, let her change her name to Griffith. Now Corinne Griffith makes $500,000 a year and is said to have the most beautiful back in the world. She lives in an English house in Beverly Hills decorated in French & Italian styles. Married to Walter Morosco, son of famed Oliver...
...majority. This bad news for Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was nothing, however, compared to that which he soon heard from North Lanarkshire, Scotland, where an immemorially Conservative seat was being fought for by Lord Scone, son of the Earl of Mansfield, a Scottish grand seignieur. Daring Laborites sent against Lord Scone pretty Miss Jenny Lee, 24, daughter of a coal-miner, "a dad who never in all his life earned more than three pounds [$15] a week." As a graduate with highest honors from the University of Edinburgh, Jenny Lee, who is entitled to practice law but teaches school instead...
Thus last week the Private Secretary of Old Paul von Hindenburg explained to correspondents why Der Alte Feldmarschall sent only the frostiest expression of official regret through German Ambassador at Paris, Dr. Leopold von Hoesch. Meanwhile German news organs indignantly recalled how Victor Foch had "rubbed it in." Facts are that when Herr Matthias Erzberger entered the Allied Generalissimo's staff car at the head of the German Armistice Commission to sue for peace, he was pointedly ignored by Foch who remarked to his staff: "Who are these gentlemen? What do they want...
...Prime Minister−who was President of France during the war. At the triumphal French entry into Strassburg in 1918, the Lion and the Tiger formally embraced each other, but it is said that they have never met or spoken since. Last week a personal autograph letter was sent by M. Poincaré to M. Clemenceau, inviting him in the name of the French Government to attend the funeral of Marshal Foch; but Le Tiger replied to Le Lion that he had already taken leave of Le Patron. French poilus called Foch Le Patron ("the boss") out of homage...