Word: pettit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York School of Display, the first, was opened in 1934 by Display Artist Polly Pettit...
...there was Chee-Chee, the musicomedy made from Charles Pettit's witty, bawdy Son of the Grand Eunuch, which Lew Fields produced in 1928. Lew Fields's son Herb, who wrote the books of several of their early hits, was sold on the Son of the Grand Eunuch, talked Hart into liking it, the two of them talked Herb's father, all three talked Rodgers. Rodgers believes it had the best score he ever wrote, that what killed it was the idea itself: "You just can't talk about castration all evening...
...Pettit of Framingham, Mass...
...Martinsburg, W. Va., Brother Newton was best man. When Newton was Secretary of War, Frank was first a captain, later a major in the A. E. F. Now a resident of Caldwell, N. J. he commutes daily to Manhattan where he is office supervisor of the sales force of Pettit & Reed, wholesale produce merchants. A trout fisherman, he took a seven-month holiday in 1930 to camp and cast up and down the Pacific Coast. He is a hard-hitting Democratic campaigner, seeking his first public office in a strongly Republican district...
Author Charles Pettit, Frenchman, in his 50's, has had a not uneventful life. Educated at St. Cyr (France's West Point), he was a civil engineer in China during the Boxer Rebellion (1900), made a fortune, lost everything in a typhoon. He served as war correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War, returned to Peking in 1912, assisted the Chinese revolutionary party. During the World War he fought for France, was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. After the War he fought in Russia for the Bolsheviks. Twice he has been condemned to death; by the Bolsheviks...