Word: squier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised among friends and business associates) Gross bought Lockheed, had the grass cut, put the watchman back on pay and went to work. From Stearman he hired brilliant, witty M. I. T.man Hall L. Hibbard to head his engineering department. In charge of sales he put smart Carl B. Squier, who had sold Lockheeds for the old company in every corner of the earth...
...years, later, in 1359, like his own gay "yong Squier," he was a soldier in the large army with which Edward invaded France. Captured and ransomed by the King, he was shipped back across the Channel with dispatches. With this as a beginning for his long diplomatic career, he spent part of the next seven years as a law student at the Inner Temple. For seven more years he held the rank of esquire in King Edward's domicile. Winter and summer he had to amuse the lords of the court with talk of politics, with piping, harping, or signing...
...Road to Rome (1927), he spent one night with Amytis. Before Archduke Rudolf Maximilian von Habsburg was rushed out of Austria in Reunion in Vienna (1931), he was vouchsafed an evening with his old girl, Elena. In The Petrified Forest (1935), Public Enemy Duke Mantee killed Alan Squier before he had done much more than nuzzle Gabrielle. What happens to Harry and Irene in Idiot's Delight is somewhat hazy, but it looks like immediate extinction for both...
Humblest passer-by is Alan Squier (Leslie Howard, taking temporary leave of the cinema to keep from "going stale") A young intellectual tired of it all, he makes complete arrangements with Duke Mantee to "put the slug on him" so that the Maples' daughter Gabrielle (pert Peggy Conklin of The Pursuit of Happiness) can collect his insurance and go to France...
Methodist Bishop Adna Wright Leonard. LL.D. Honorary President Ezra Squier Tipple of Drew University. . . . . . . . . . . . . L.H.D...