Word: beau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vital document into his personal care, and embarked on the maiden voyage of the just completed flagship of the French Line, the Ile de France (sixth largest ship-41,000 tons). That Mr. Herrick had previously planned to come home, anyway, did not alter the effectiveness of his beau geste...
...satisfactory to those in Russia who feel that communism is being threatened. To press it would probably be to incur the hostility of the other nations who would inevitably regard the action as totally unwarranted. It is possible that the severity already threatened is no more than a beau geste for the benefit of Russian opinion, and that further action is improbable. But thus to confuse further an already delicate issue would seem extremely unwise. How the matter will be settled remains to be seen, but it appears that Russia has been placed in a much more awkward position than...
Percival Christopher Wren (British author of Beau Geste, Beau Sabreur, etc.) was co-respondent in a divorce suit won by Cyril Graham Smith, civil engineer stationed at Poona, India, from Mrs. Smith, in London...
Rich But Honest tells how two poor working girls jilt their garagemen steadies for life on the stage. One rises to the spectacular part of Lady Godiva in a voluminous blond wig. The other gets a rich beau with "honorable intentions...
...sauntered slowly over to morning chapel he was still in an agony of doubt. Solomon was a bigger man than he. He had been on the Lampoon, and had been the beau ideal of Radcliffe for four years, called the waiters in the Sahara by the first names, had been in the first fifteen in the Dramatic Club...