Word: adrien
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...honors are greater, more feverishly sought than the privilege of sitting as a member of the French Academy. Yet M. Georges Eugene Adrien Clemenceau, although elected to the Academy in 1918, has never taken his seat. Why? He explained testily to a correspondent last week at Paris...
Parisian publishers cannot get M. Georges Eugene Adrien Clemenceau, famed "Tiger of France," to write his memoirs. They can only console one another by making a good story out of his sharp, testy rejoinders when they approach him. Last week one more disappointed and rebuffed seeker after the memoirs of M. Clemenceau told ruefully what "Le Tigre" had growled...
...example, Minister of Public Works André Pierre Gabriel Amédeé Tardieu, 50, averted a coal strike last week in quite the slashing style of his lifelong friend and editorial collaborator Georges Eugene Adrien Clemenceau...
...morning last week over the long sand dunes on the sea coast just above Bordeaux. Occasionally a wave burst over the sea wall, spattered with tingling droplets an old man who sat hunched upon a bench, staring seaward. Grey skies shrouded the 85th birthday of Georges Eugene Adrien Clemenceau...
...friends (TIME, April 5) that he treads the brink of the grave. He is 85. But even as he speaks of death, the unquenchable fire darts from his eyes. The grey, suede-gloved hands have still the air of sheathing tiger claws. . . . Last week M. Georges Eugene Adrien Clemenceau, responding no doubt to an appeal from his old friend and political ally, Premier Poincaré, unsheathed his claws and raked the U. S. upon the raw in a curt, sarcastic, seering letter to President Coolidge...