Word: chemins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Malvy. Hotheads leaped up and bellowed that the new Minister of Interior, Louis Jean Malvy, was friendly to the notorious Germany spy, Mata Hari, during the War, that he had traitorously sold information to the Germans, fomented mutinies and was even chiefly responsible for the Allied setback at the Chemin des Dames. They demanded to know why M. Briand had included such a man in his Cabinet.* In vain the Government, supporters yelled hack that most of these charges were lies in the first place and that anyhow M. Malvy had expiated whatever guilt was his by submitting...
Cried M. Malvy: "I was made the scapegoat of our High Command! The High Command knows that the blood of Chemin des Dames is not on these hands of mine! They are clean! I besought you, M. Briand, not to call me into your Cabinet. I told you my enemies would repeat these lies. Gladly I would resign...
...appeal," continued the Premier, "to the patriotism of the country." "Even to that of Caillaux," rejoined Royalist Deputy Ybarnegaray. M. Painlevé went on. He referred to the rights of the wounded; the latter part of his sentence was drowned in a roar from the extreme Left (Communist) benches of: "Chemin des Dames" (name of a French disaster which happened during the Premier's first term of office...
...Gothic and Renaissance sculpture fills the niches, flanks, the broad.stair. Off the adjoining corridor is a chapel from a monastery. The rooms are crowded with many world-famed paintings, decorated with furnishings that are authentic works of Art in their own right. There are Italian cassone, papal chairs, a cheminée of Francis the First. Spanish embossed leather covers the walls of one room. Among the artists represented are Raphael, Veronese, Titian, Botticelli,, Fra Angelico, Giotto, Pollaiuolo, da Fabriano, Diirer, Holbein, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Ribera, Velasquez, Sargent, Zorn, La Farge, Whistler. Three of the most famous paintings...
During the debate, M. Bokanowski, General Reporter of the Finance Committee, likened emotion in Paris caused by the debacle of the franc on Jan. 14 (the date when it reached its lowest level) to that caused by the news of the battle of Chemin des Dames. Loud cries of "What an exaggeration...