Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First violence of the conflict occurred when three Equity sympathizers hissed 150 War-veteran studio workers. The veterans dragged the two younger hissers from their automobile together with hundreds of feet of film, maltreated both film and hissers. Equity denied official connection...
Painter Chandor's grandfather was Count Laszlo Chandor of Hungary, kin by marriage of the great Prince Metternich. His mother was an Irishwoman. Raised in England and at heart an Englishman, he, like many another young gentleman, considered it more sporting to go into the War as a "Tommy" in the ranks than to get a commission. After he came out, the tailstroke of what had smashed him up "a bit," smashed his family's fortunes. Instead of grubbing along or "going out" to the U. S. or Canada, he squared off at life, determined to develop his strongest talent...
...League of Nations, and in 1924 became Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts under Premier Poincaré. In 1925 he did a brilliant six-months' job as French High Commissioner for Syria. Returning to Paris in 1926, he later began La Revue des Vivants with the help of other War survivors (his Croix de Guerre is for Verdun). Now aged 53, he continues in the French Senate, a potent member of the foreign affairs committee. His book about France's Mirabeau might be in a measure paralleled in the U.S. if Senator Borah should break the tradition of inartisticness...
...Hazzard. Thus ends the saga of a man reared by his mother, raised by his wife. Author Deeping, whose Roper's Row bears some slight hero-resemblance to Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, writes with experience of medicine, which he practiced before and during the World War. Deeping's previous Sorrell and Son was rated part and parcel of Anglo-Saxon realism...
...Author Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (TIME, June 17) so similar is Author Renn's War that comparisons of the two will be inevitable...