Word: violet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born. To the Rev. Dr. Robert Forman Horton, 73, famed English Congregationalist, president of the National Free Church Council; and Mrs. Violet Basden Horton, 36, a nine-pound daughter; in London. Mrs. Horton, when a baby, was baptized by Dr. Horton...
...show through a somehow familiar tavern scene. After that "The Red Robe" could run along on the magnificent staging of its seventeenth century interiors,s in which Watson Barratt has secured blendings of scenery and costume second only to those in Ames' "Merchant of Venice". But by this time Violet Carlson, yellow-haired and bandy-legged, has started being the only soubrette with a baby voice who was ever funny, and Barnett Parker and Barry Lupino have burlesqued all Flanders hip boots and picture hats out of sight...
...Violet May, at No. 3, played better polo than the other Canadians; rode better and handled her stick almost as well as the Prince of Wales does. Mrs. James Hewlett, at No. 3, scored four of the five U. S. goals and played better than anyone else in the match. Neither of the Lanier girls, Sally & Becky, scored against Canada...
...intelligent young woman (Violet Heming) and a Babbitt with ideals (Minor Watson) agree to get married on a business basis: he pays her a fat salary; she looks after his comforts, entertains his friends, but does not sleep with him; both are free to do whatsoever they please, to call off the marriage whensoever they wish. Love comes and the marriage is put on a more conventional footing. After that, the monkey wrench idea is used...
Jacques de Sibour was an ace and a great ace in the War, a fact which not everyone knows who knows Jacques de Sibour. On marrying Violet Selfridge it became necessary for him to go to work in the Selfridge store for the rich old man. Thus Jacques de Sibour and his wife lived in Lansdowne House, the grand and picture-filled castle in the centre of London. When Jacques got a two weeks holiday, they toured all about the Mediterranean in a tiny airplane. When they were granted a longer vacation they flew to Abyssinia and built a house...