Word: birdsongs
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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Ship-Beauty. With the air full of birdsong and Findhorn murmurs, tactful Georges Leygues, France's fearsomely mustached Minister of Marine, ex-Prime Minister of France (1921), did his little bit for peace. He could not reduce France's navy, but at least he could make it look peaceable, he could beautify it. So France's new battleships and cruisers are to be decorated with sculpture and figured bas-reliefs. Charged with beautifying the battleships was an elderly sculptor, named Moreau-Vauthier...