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Word: ch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...betake himself to all his Dominions and to India from time to time. During such absences Queen Mary and a Council of State will reign in London with powers delegated by the King. They start reigning next month when His Majesty & friends move into the flamboyantly modernistic French Château de I'Horizon at Juan-les-Pins which he has rented from oldtime Actress Maxine Elliott. Last week Britons viewed bug-eyed in their illustrated papers pictures of this Hollywood setting, complete with ''artificial moonlight" and a practical joke swimming chute. Fun is had when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Jul. 13, 1936 | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...Rockefeller Jr. was shocked by their state of decay, gave the Comité $1,000,000. His workmen did a thorough Rockefeller job of repair. Later Mr. Rockefeller gave $2,080,000 more, some of it to restore the War-shelled Cathedral of Reims and to put the château of Fontainebleau in shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rockefeller Reward | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...silence. Then Representative Guyer, onetime high-school principal, onetime judge, onetime mayor of Kansas City, Kans., presented the Republican tribute to the dead. He quoted Felicia Hemans, Tennyson, Shakespeare (twice), Joseph Addison, William Cullen Bryant, William Winter. He drew on three foreign tongues: from Dante, Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate; from Bishop Jean Baptiste Massillon's funeral oration over Louis Quatorze, Dieu seul est grand; from a "lucid saying" of the Romans, Sic transit gloria mundi. Two he translated for the benefit of his less cultured colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: In Memoriam | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Died. Henri ("Père Gaspard") Chèron. 69, longtime government finance expert member of twelve French Cabinets; childhood playmate of St. Therese of Lisieux (the "Little Flower"): of peritonitis; in Lisieux, France. In 1934 he was ejected as Minister of Justice for supposedly bungling the Stavisky scandal investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 27, 1936 | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...Harvard lineup: g, Swanson (Boston player); rf, Bradley, Sheridan; lf, Powell, Gosline; rh, Alexandre, Hassett; ch, Jacobson; lh, Phillips; ro, Hastings; ri, Porter; c, Johnson, Vincent; li, Motley; lo, Stubbs, Sinnott...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER TEAM LOSES 4-1 | 4/21/1936 | See Source »

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