Word: veteranly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Count Laszlo Szechenyi, the Hungarian Minister, took his wife, who was fashionable Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, to Newport, R. I., and there, amid surroundings thoroughly familiar to her, established his little diplomatic court. A veteran diplomat, he well knows the impossibility of escaping Washington's torridity in Washington...
Other Warren distinctions: As the Senate's only Civil War veteran, he holds the Congressional Medal of Honor. The highest peak in Wyoming (13,725 ft. in Wind River Range) was named Mount Warren for him. His influence was largely responsible for the selection of his son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, to command...
Despite the rage of Rio, the choice of demure Lisl Goldarbeiter was enthusiastically greeted elsewhere. At the sight of the slender Viennese, trembling with emotion in her green silk bathing suit, even veteran press correspondents were affected. The mother of another contestant rhapsodized...
...seeing him spurn a splendidly groomed and golden mistress (Verree Teasdale) for the less lustrous Geraldine, a noble act described in the play as a "virgin complex." The audience is likewise not surprised when, deprived of Geraldine, he goes honeymooning with her sister Elizabeth, the clever virgin. The veteran Robert Warwick is properly apparelled and deep-voiced as Chandler. A small, piquant brunette named Sylvia Sidney makes the wisecracking Elizabeth thoroughly fresh and annoying...
...Court's plans: to "take that vacation after all and go fishing," to buy his own home, to provide education for his children, Lawrence, Florence, Floracene, Juanita, Clyde. His other three children are already educated. Engineer Court will not, however, receive the entire value of his ticket. To the veteran's relief fund he must donate 47% (about $40,000). To Guy Moore, Indiana plumber who bought a fifth interest in the winning ticket, he must pay $10,000. The J. S. will also collect income tax. Engineer Court found time, last week, amid many financial arguments and arrangements...