Word: proper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaders took the greater part of a whole day. The next day Field Marshal Simmons, finding that he had turned two pages of his speech together (by accident), brought out the lost page and read it to his eager followers. Then, not to omit any element of a proper epic, Chief of Staff Pat Harrison leapt upon the Democratic parapet and reviled the leaders of the enemy. Said...
...fellow in high collars and without hair, he gained attention over other European adventurers looking for a fortune in the movies because he knew something about military etiquette. He had been to a cadet school in Austria, had served in a crack imperial regiment. After advising directors on the proper management of uniforms and parades, he began to act in pictures himself-stared through a monocle, fought duels, smoked the longest cigarets ever photographed kinetically; was billed as "The Man You Love to Hate". Not satisfied, he became a director for Universal. He made some good pictures, but took long...
...Mexico City President Emilio Fortes Gil attended, as he had promised he would do (TIME, Sept. 9), a football game between the University of Mexico and the Club de Sportivo. The President's wife went too and. with the cloudy enthusiasm proper to all female football spectators, was heard to cry: "Que Emocien!" ("How thrilling!"), the day after the game, Reginald Root, Yale '25, University of Mexico Coach, was called again into the presidential presence, to hear these gratifying words: "Football appeals to me more than any sport. . . . Our young men are virile and will soon learn...
...week the Official Spokesman reappeared, but this time it was no fiction. When all the world was at war and Woodrow Wilson had a great deal to do, he used to send out his then good friend and trusted secretary, Joseph Patrick Tumulty, to tell correspondents whatever it was proper for them to know. Five times so far President Hoover has cancelled conferences with pressmen. Last week, distracted by Tariff, World Court, Arms Reduction and Republican National Committee, he sent his trusted secretary George Akerson to fill his appointment with the press. This Official Spokesman, strikingly Hooveresque in physical appearance...
...getting her husband a better job. All might have been well had not the husband's indiscretions suddenly taken an obstetrical turn. Hearing this, his wife has nothing to do but go to Paris for a divorce. There she conveniently meets the diplomat. The picture has all the proper- ties of its predecessor, but lacks the popular sentimentality. Worst shot: Rod La Rocque as the diplomat in a golf sweater which might better have been used to flag an airplane. The Hottentot (Warner Vitaphone). The Hottentot is a terrifying racing steed. He belongs to a horsey Eastern family, needs...