Word: stranger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well-known to Parisian socialites for his activities in behalf of impoverished Emigres in Paris, dapper Prince Youssoupov is no stranger to the courts. In 1925 he lost a suit against Joseph P. Widener for $500,000 worth of pictures which he was under the impression that Mr. Widener had accepted as security for a loan. But for the occasion which prompted last week's dinner party the Princess Irina owed less to her husband's testimony on the stand than to her lawyer, bright-lipped, buxom Fanny Holtzmann...
...naturally considers Eadie a guttersnipe adventuress. Young T. R. decides to marry her. Paige senior arranges a scene in which Eadie, back in Manhattan, is publicly photographed in negligee in the embrace of a grinning stranger. Eadie retaliates in kind when old T. R. is about to sail on the Aquitania for an international gathering. In a split second she appears in his cabin in her underclothes, gives him a mighty hug while press photographers do the rest. All this feverish by-play ends in a curious reconciliation scene. Eadie gets drunk. To sober her up, young T. R. Paige...
...midshipmen marched away feeling they had given His Holiness a thrill. Remarked a Vatican official afterwards: "The Holy Father has received pilgrims from Africa who have made stranger noises than that...
Races. But aside from the happy excitement of playing host to such a notable stranger for a few days Hawaiians had another, deeper reason for being interested in the President's coming. Last year he had tried to take away the territory's cherished right to home-rule, to appoint a mainlander as its Governor. His ostensible reason was that it was hard to find, as the law required, a good man resident on the islands. But all the world knew that the President was thinking of the Massie rape & murder case of 1931-32, of the racial seethings that...
Although truth is said to be stranger than fiction, in most historical movies facts are changed to suit the plot. "The House of Rothschild" is no exception, but the story gains by the alteration. Author Westley, a Boston Transcript editorial man, portrays the rise of the financial house, the orgination of branch banking, and the economic crises of the Napoleonic era with an eye for dramatic incidents...