Word: armand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Process. One interested party who read about this planned epizootic was Dr. Paul Armand-Delille, a leading French pediatrician who owns a chateau near Chartres. Rabbits are not public enemies in France. Their natural enemies, including 1,800,000 Frenchmen with hunting licenses, keep them from eating the country bare. But. Dr. Armand-Delille's estate was skittering with rabbits, so he decided to rub them out in the latest scientific manner...
...Armand Hoog, visiting lecturer on French literature complained that American women in general, and Radcliffe girls in particular, want "to have their cake, and eat it too." But most agree that they manage to do a very good job of it. As Cherington summed it up: "Radcliffe has extremely high intellectual standards, yet the girls have style and 'elan', and take their highly varied and extensive social life well in their stride." Compared with other women's colleges, he said, "It ranks with Bryn Mawr and Barnard as the three leading intellectual colleges, yet it does not have 'the supra...
Before he had been in office a fortnight, Brownell reached out to New York and booted Armand Chankalian out of his job as administrative assistant to U.S. Attorney Myles J. Lane. Chankalian, veteran of seven years in his job, had turned out to be buddy-buddy with New York's fashionable Gangster Thomas ("Three-Finger Brown") Luchese. Snapped Brownell: "There will be no dealings with gangsters or racketeers...
...good part of the social rise of Three-Finger Brown proved to have been accomplished with the aid of tiny (5 ft., 118 lbs.) Armand Chankalian, administrative assistant to U.S. Attorney Lane. Chankalian testified that not until 1950 had he come to realize that his good friend, Tommy Luchese, had so lurid a past. Then, said Chankalian, he had told Luchese, "I introduced you to some very nice people, and I owe an obligation to them . . . I'm sorry, I can't see you any more . . ." Informed that his car had been seen in front of Luchese...
...Nothing. In Jacksonville, Used-Car Dealer Armand Dufrene wondered for two years what was in the locked safe in his office, which he had never been able to open, still wondered about its contents after burglars looted...