Word: boni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Writing in L'Eclair, Paris journal, le marquis Boni de Castellane, once the erring husband of Anna Gould (now Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord, Duchesse de Sagan), urged France to sell her colonies in order that she might gain strength as a nation. He held that some of the colonies may be lost anywhere and that it is but common sense to sell them, as Napoleon I sold Louisiana (for 60,000,000 francs*), before their loss was an established fact...
Died. Professor Giacomo Boni, 66, archaeologist, who became famed through his researches into the antiquities of Rome and was director of excavations at the Forum; on the Palatine Hill, at Rome, from an apoplectic stroke. King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Benito Mussolini sent condolences to his family. Signor Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner of Rome (equivalent of mayor), sent in the name of the Eternal City a guard of honor to the mortuary, announced that the funeral expenses would be borne by the city...
...CRYSTAL CUP-Gertrude Atherton-Boni, Liveright. Concerns a beautiful young woman with an aversion to marriage...
DARK LAUGHTER-Sherwood Anderson-Boni, Liveright. A love story in post-War Ohio...
...QUEEN OF COOKS-AND SOME KINGS- Recorded by Mary Lawton- Boni, Liveright ($3.00). Lord Northcliffe and ''heaps of others" long pestered Cook Rosa Lewis of the Cavendish Hotel, London, for her "story." Now it is told, in her own saucy words, to a honey-tongued minion of The Pictorial Review. From a pigtailed slavey to a wealthy, highly temperamental, badly spoiled but charming intimate of all the Victorian bigwigs including the seventh Edward, his cousin Wilhelm and even some Boston Cabots-that is a story made more remarkable by the absence of any evidence that Rosa operated...