Word: bourg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bothered," he wrote. "I am thinking of a series of disguises for myself so that I can go to picture galleries and look . . . and think. . . ." Impressionism permanently affected him. His subjects were usually nobodies of all nationalities. From the age of 33, when the Luxem bourg purchased his cityscape La Neige, Artist Henri's reputation vaulted, his tal ent ripened slowly, continuously. He taught in Philadelphia, Paris, New York. His later years were spent at Manhattan's Art Students League, where hun dreds of students learned that this man with the sensitive Gallic features and wide-set, almost...
...German Republic has no war office but instead a "Ministry of Defense." Therefore French pacifists find it intolerable that France still has a "Ministry of War." Last week the situation was finally deemed so grave that War Minister Paul Painlevé sped out to Bourg and there proposed amid pacifist plaudits that his war office shall be re-named the "Ministry of Peace...
Friends smuggled them out, somehow, while the German comedian, Eugene Bourg, incited a crowd of Berliners to chase them to their hotel. Later the same night Maria Orska quarreled with her sister, informed her that she could hardly carry on with so impolitic a business manager. Next morning the Marchesa di Serra Mantschedda was found swinging from the curtain cord of a window in her apartment. She had hanged herself...
...trial of the Black Star Line Company revealed that the line has $31.75 in the bank and liabilities of $731,432, One of Garvey's former agents, " Sir" Sydney de Bourg, Knight Commander of the Order of the Nile, Leader of the Far Western Provinces of the West Indies, Duke of Nigeria and Duke of Uganda, testified to Garvey's extravagance in the West Indies, asserting that he had " gone broke at the races." The Assistant Treasurer of the line testified that Garvey had appropriated for himself money collected for the Association and for the Black Star Line. Unless Marcus...
...annexed" without its consent. Furthermore, the agitation in favor of independence is spreading steadily throughout the districts. Is it for this then, that France has waited fifty years; is it for this that thousands of Frenchmen gave their lives in the great war; and for this that the Strass-bourg statue was draped in black for two generations? Such seems indeed to be the case...