Word: bourguin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uncle Schott to Nice. He had no recollection of giving any visiting cards to his nephew, but did remember giving his card to a plausible young German named Eugene George Weidmann. Eugene George Weidmann was discovered living at St. Cloud under the name of Siegfried Sauerbrey. Inspectors Poignant and Bourguin of the Paris police dropped in on him. Before they were halfway through the doorway Weidmann whipped out a pistol, wounded them both. Plunging ahead, they beat him into submission...
...Vera Cruz last month a circus elephant to which French Consul Marcel Bourguin was feeding bananas suddenly knocked him down, stepped on him, tossed him across the tent (TIME, April 23). Last week in Toluca when one Miguel Solorzano fed the creature banana peels the same elephant trampled him to death...
Last week, tall and distinguished behind his glittering eyeglasses, Marcel Bourguin, French Consul at Vera Cruz, went to the circus. In the animal tent his party stopped before a musky line of elephants...
...Mais ils sont fantastique!" cried Consul Bourguin and purchased a bunch of spotted yellow bananas. A bull elephant swayed forward automatically, shot out his crinkled trunk and delicately stuffed a handful of bananas into his little pink mouth. Suddenly two little red eyes focussed on Consul Bourguin, the elephant stopped chewing. Out shot the trunk again, like a fist this time, while the elephant trumpeted in rage. Consul Bourguin was knocked sprawling beneath the beast. Down stomped a colossal foot to break his leg and hip, then light as an armful of hay the angry elephant swung the French Consul...
...Vera Cruz hospital next day, reporters found bandaged M. Bourguin pale but cheerful...
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