Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defense reeked with sentimentality and patriotism. Lawyer Hogan made the women of the jury weep. Doheny on the witness stand cried easily and often. Frequent were the references to Fall's bad health. Lawyer Thompson tried to describe "a red haired young man" (Doheny) and "a black haired young fellow" (Fall) meeting on the "deserts of the Southwest" when Justice Hitz cut in: "The color of Mr. Doheny's hair is not in evidence. Please follow the evidence." Lawyer Hogan made an impassioned plea for the jury to send Fall "back to the sunshine of New Mexico." Remarked...
Like many a young woman now earning a good living in the show business, Lenore Ulric never had much luck until she went to work for David Belasco. Her father was a steward in an army hospital in Milwaukee. She was born in New Ulm, Minn. She ran away from the 5th grade to be a cigaret girl in a stock-company Carmen. She told Belasco where she had played-Chicago, Grand Rapids, Schenectady. She had walked into the Belasco Theatre in Manhattan early one morning, answering an advertisement for supers. She looked tired and sick but she managed...
Biggest man of the week in France was Edouard Daladier, never big before. Young for a statesman, he is but 45. Less than a dozen years ago he was teaching history in the public schools of sleepy Orange. Stocky, pugnacious, eloquent he caught the eye of the boss-politician of central France, famed Edouard Herriot, spellbinding Mayor of Lyons. Edouard gave Edouard a leg up into the Chamber of Deputies in 1919, and fora time Edouard toadied to Edouard in return. When Mayor Herriot became Prime Minister in 1924 he popped Henchman Daladier into the Ministry of Colonies, later...
...Hague emergency M. Briand accepted the thankless, tightrope-walking task. Last week with the curt frankness of an aging, tired man, he told the Deputies that he knew they would soon oust him, begged them in the name of common sense not to do so until the Young Reparations Plan approved at the Hague Conference had been ratified...
...perhaps his one chance to keep the Deputies harmlessly preoccupied for some weeks. A score of Deputies of nearly as many parties rose to protest. Even blind Deputy Scapins was up in arms. Finally one Jean Montigny, obscure Radical Socialist demanded a gen eral debate on the Hague agreements, Young Plan and Rhineland evacuation...