Word: andre
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wrote André ("Pertinax") Geraud...
Since New Year's, Frenchmen have celebrated with pomp & circumstance the hundredth anniversaries of Romanticism, of the conquest of Algeria, of the invention of the sewing machine.* Last week in Paris, their centennial enthusiasm undiminished, President Gaston Doumergue and Prime Minister André Tardieu clapped on their silk hats, motored to the Hotel de Ville behind a clattering escort of brass-helmeted cuirassiers of the Garde Républicaine to make oratory on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Revolution of 1830, which in three days of furious street fighting† swept Charles X from the throne of France, installed...
Died. Mrs. Swan Donoho Beaty of Manhattan, wife of Board Chairman Amos Leonidas Beaty of Transcontinental Oil Co.; at St. André-de-Cubzac, a village near Bordeaux on the Paris-Biarritz road, immediately after an auto accident in which her husband was also injured...
Vexed by reports that Manhattan's Chrysler Building is now "World's Tallest Structure," numerous French patriots sent letters, telegrams, petitions to Prime Minister André Tardieu last week demanding that he add a 22-foot extension to the Eiffel Tower, thus making it again tallest...
...full life. Jane Ward is 14 when her story opens in the '90s, a grandmother when it ends, still hale if not as hearty as she has been. Jane is the younger daughter of a well-to-do conservative Chicago family. When she falls in love with André, 19-year-old French boy who wants to be a sculptor, her parents forbid them to see each other. Later Jane marries Stephen, a perfectly respectable match, but is never really in love with him. In her long married life she has only one affair, with the never-do-well...