Word: aymard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...punctually Editor Aymard and Cartoonist Sennep turned up arm-in-arm in La Salle des Pas-Perdus (the hall of lost footsteps) in which journalists and deputies pace. They were set upon by a pack of Socialist statesmen. Elderly Editor Aymard jerked a dog whip from his pocket, laid about him. Deputy Barthe, a questor of the Chamber, rushed up in an attempt to preserve order as was his duty, caught the whip full across his face...
...result of a stinging exchange of personal charges through the newspapers, M. Camille Aymard, political director of La Liberté and famed big game hunter, challenged M. Herriot, leader of the Radical bloc in the Chamber of Deputies, to a duel, and sent Ernest Outrey, Deputy for Indo-China, and M. Maspero, ex-Governor of Indo-China, to M. Herriot, as his seconds. They were referred to Deputies Edouard Daladier and Alexandre Varenne, seconds for M. Herriot. The seconds were to meet to decide whether a duel was warranted and, if so, how it was to be fought...
| 1 |