Word: alen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sorbonne. Said he: "You are a bad lot. You lead bad lives, with the great fat trollops you keep!" With England he fought, when he thought he could win; made treaties, when he thought he could win that way. When the great Houses of Burgundy, Bourbon, Brittany, Lorraine, Artois, Alençon, Armagnac, Anjou leagued against him, he played them off one against the other, overcame them gradually by force, craft or bribery. When he died, at 60, he left a united France and a dynasty that lasted for 300 years...
...more than, ever a synthesis of many elements - pure design, clients' specifications, construction engineering, interior decorating, landscape architecture, plumbing - much of the space was devoted to the Allied Arts. The architectural gamut ran through garages, houses, churches, public buildings, reached a skyward climax in Manhattan Architect William Van Alen's plans for the new Chrysler Building, to be world's highest (68 stories), now under construction in midtown Manhattan. Everywhere apparent was the tendency toward simplification of form, and the invention of new forms rather than reliance on archaeology. Colorists now apply a vivid spectrum to polychrome...
Married. Prince Charles Philippe, Due de Nemours, 23, only son of the Due and Duchesse de Vendome et d'Alençon, nephew of King Albert of Belgium and cousin of Edward, Prince of Wales; to Miss Marguerite ("Peggy") Watson of Washington, D. C., sometime fiancée of Angier B. Duke and the late Reginald Vanderbilt; in London...
Last week, dressed in his black robes of state, trimmed with gold, and wearing the famous Chain of Esses (bequeathed in 1567 by ex-Lord Mayor Sir John Alen to the then Lord Mayor and his successors to "use and occupie yerely at and uppon principall and festival dayes"), Sir Alfred Bower, member of the Vintners' Company (14th Vintner to be elected Lord Mayor), athlete and bicyclist, rode in state from the Guildhall* to the Law Courts to be sworn in as Lord Mayor of London...
...Thursday morning, the University will be represented in the Clemens Medal Novice Foil Competition for fencers with less than two years of experience. Noll Morese '26 and A. R. Alen '26 of the Unive1rsity squad, with John Winder '27, number two man on the Freshman team, will compete for this title and Franklin Hollis, captain of the 1927 team, is a possible entrant...