Word: lions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...digestion of his late presidential dinner. From the clock a low, rapid tik-tik-tik. From the President of France a contented, sleepy sigh. Felicity! Then a door yawned and in strode busy, kinetic M. Raymond Poincaré, the man who saved and stabilized the franc, the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine...
Subtitle shown on many screens last week: MOST TERRIFYING SOUND IN THE WORLD RECORDED BY FOX MOVIETONE NEWS. Pictures showed a lion roaring. Asked critics, "Was it made by a pail covered with cowhide sliding on rosined cloth...
...Representative Brazilla Carroll Reece. The leader of a neighboring and equally Republican district in Tennessee is Representative J. Will Taylor. The Messrs. Huston and Reece have sharp intraparty differences with Mr. Taylor. But it was planned, for harmony's sake, to let Mr. Taylor be as big a lion as anyone in receiving Nominee Hoover. It was planned that, at the luncheon of the day, Mr. Reece should rise to welcome the Nominee, and that Mr. Taylor should then rise to praise him. Both wrote out fine speeches. The hour and the Nominee arrived...
...British Lion...
Died. Charles Grey, brother & heir to the baronetcy of Viscount Edward Grey of Fallodon; from injuries inflicted by a buffalo; in Tanganyika, East Africa. George Grey, another brother of the Viscount, was killed by an African lion...