Word: au
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Herriot put the Belgian Ministers au courant with his conversations with Premier MacDonald. They gave reason to hope for the close collaboration of Great Britain...
...Mais non!" He came home at 12. Why should his children come home half an hour earlier? The working classes voted solidly for a 12 to 2 lunch-hour, giving papa a chance to see his child and the child a chance to eat and digest the daily pot-au-feu, broth with huge chunks of sour Parisian bread. A strong minority voted to continue the present system. Thirty thousand families did not vote at all. Teachers became alarmed lest they should be required to work more than their statutory six hours a day. There were present all the ingredients...
...Eighth Biennial Conference of the Young Women's Christian Association, in Manhattan. This was a truly international affair, in which women from all over the world?white, saffron, café-au-lait?took part. Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, came unexpectedly from Washington to deliver an address, at the instance of Mrs. Frederick Paist, his sister and President of the national organization. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., celebrated the convention by giving an international house-party for a number of delegates?including Countess Elsa Bernadotte, niece of the King of Denmark, and Mrs. H. C. Mei, head...
...Women? white, saffron, café-au-lait...
...COOK AND THE CAPTAIN BOLD? Arthur Mason?Atlantic Monthly Press ($2.00). A sea-story that sails from cover to cover without once reminding you that you are a landlubber. For the crew, there is the bo'sun, with the beautiful dancing girls au naturel tatooed on his hairy arm; Kitty McCann, the Cap'n's wife, "half owner and sole boss of the schooner, whose right arm was sheer muscle and whose footwork as she bounded on the deck proclaimed that she could take a fall out of any man not specially trained to withstand her"; Oilskin Jack and Bonita...