Word: bordeaux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a notable scandal developed when a group of bourgeois sadists set out from Bordeaux to the little town of Bombon, once the seat of Marshal Foch's General Staff, and there flogged an alleged recalcitrant member of their cult, the Abbé des Noyers...
...Bordeaux cult, the noted order of Nôtre Dame des Pleurs (Our Lady of Tears), has flourished for 21 years, since its foundation by one Mme. Marie Mesmin, "Sainted Mother Marie" (onetime concierge), and a Syrian priest, "The Archimandrite Sibourgi," who in 1920, quarreled with Mme. Mesmin, "laid a curse upon her," and returned to Syria...
...Abbé des Noyers declared last week that, far from being a member of the cult, he had originally been called to Bordeaux at the request of Mme. Mesmin, who wished him to dispel her curse...
...Oneida, now unloading at Bordeaux to bring back a commercial cargo; the Onondaga, in the Caribbean returning with 1,600,000 ft. of lumber from Seattle whither she took Fords; the East Indian being reconditioned at Chester, Pa; the Henry Ford II and Benson Ford (named after a young son of Edsel) in the neighborhood of the Sao Canal, one carrying Ford products, the other returning with a commercial cargo. All carry the "Bluebird" ensign chose by Mr. Ford himself; cf. Maeterlinck...
...provincial universities in France are all very much the same, since they are under the strongly centralized control of the Minister of Public Instruction, and are subsidized by him. Therefore it does not make much difference whether the American goes to Bordeaux, Lyons, Nancy, or Aix, although I should say in this particular that this is not true of Grenoble, since one also finds a great many foreigners and Americans matriculating there...