Word: alled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Please put no words into my mouth," begged Prime Minister Andre Tardieu, onetime political lieutenant of Clemenceau, as he issued from a last homage to his chief at 3 a. m. "All that I have to say is that in Death he lies magnificent and calm."
"The library was well supplied with the best works of all sorts. It was generally deserted. I requisitioned it. Secluded, far from the tumult of the streets, in a little room inaccessible to the few visitors that came, I read the best historians and philosophers. Days, weeks passed. It lasted...
Wrecker of Cabinets. The bitterest years fast followed the happiest. Returning to Paris in the last days of fat Napoleon Ill's tottering empire, the Young Tiger was just in time to gnash impotent jaws as Bismarck's Prussians conquered with "blood and iron" at Sedan, then tramped on to...
Few U. S. citizens realize that he went out of office in 1909, that he was not Prime Minister of France during the first three years of the war. As editor of L'Homme Libre and, when that was suppressed, of L'Homme Enchaine, he preached such deathless, rampant patriotism...
After ousting Bukharin the Committee crushingly rebuked two suspected partakers in his heresy: Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, the puppet Prime Minister of the Soviet Union; and Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky, onetime Chairman of the All-Union General Council of Trade Unions. Contrite to the point of tears, Comrades Rykov and Tomsky confessed...