Word: armes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relations with a rival adventurer known as Jean Galmot, from French Guiana. Galmot, a Wartime rumrunner, turned a handsome profit before developing political ambitions. With 800,000 francs, lent by Sacha Stavisky, Jean Galmot became a Deputy for French Guiana. The two cronies developed an even wilder scheme: to arm the convicts in the Guiana penal settlements and set up an independent state which they imagined the U. S. would support. At this point, still according to Deputy Henriot, Jean Galmot and "Handsome Alex" Stavisky fell madly in love with the beautiful Arlette Simon who married Stavisky. Conspirator Galmot tattled...
Conversation hushed in thousands of U. S. homes last Sunday afternoon. In New York's Carnegie Hall a great audience rose to its feet as a slender little man with a stick under his arm made his way as swiftly and inconspicuously as possible to the conductor's stand. For him the business of the afternoon was Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, the Franck D Minor. But for once he had to pause until the audience had shown its reverence for Arturo Toscanini...
...journalism which had characterized your columns in the so-called "golden-days" before the six came in. I am told that the progressive editors of your paper were over-ruled by the stick-in-the-muds who had retired from active work. They were of the opinion that an arm-chair sheet, with fat salaries and dull stories, was the more comfortable choice in the dilemma. Raymond Dennett...
...Jones and Horton Smith lost today as Johnny Dawson, Western amateur, scored a hole-in-one for a low card of 55 in an exhibition engagement with Jones Smith and Ed Dudley in the first public match with the new golf ball, treated with a "shot in the arm...
...night stands. President Taft used to say that after he went to a play the first thing he asked himself was whether it was as good as Disraeli. When Arliss hurt his hand and had to do all his business with one arm, there arose a legend that Disraeli had paralysis. Compared to Disraeli, The Green Goddess was a failure; Arliss played it for only three years. Old English in which skinny Arliss was a hard-drinking, robust old Tory, was his greatest financial success on the stage. In Hollywood, George Arliss is an extraordinary personage. He stops work every...