Word: citroen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lost to Athanase Vagliano and his colleagues of the famed "Greek Syndicate" at Cannes or at Deauville, according to one's means. The Syndicate's game was and is baccarat. One season they lost three millions of francs to M. André Citroen, the "Henry Ford of France." In the novel Enemies of Women famed Spaniard Vincente Blasco Ibánez portrayed Athanase Vagliano, under another name, as the evil genius of the Riviera. As a matter of fact the heaviest losers to the Syndicate do seem to have been women. "Once," Vincente Blasco Ibánez has said, "I saw Vagliano...
...Andre Citroen, French motorman, was again at Deauville Casino calling "banco suivi suivi." During an evening in which he lost $500,000, Madame Citroen kept chiding him. He kept retorting. They became a nuisance, were asked to keep quiet. Said Madame: "Messieurs, surely I have the right to protect my home against a madman...
Smart, blase Deauville was almost surprised, last week, when dapper M. Andre Gustave Citroen, famed "Henry Ford of France," sat as judge upon a male fashion parade and upon a bevy of diving Adonises...
...Judge Citroen, assisted by Baron van Zuylen and clubbable M. Andre de Four-quiers, scored the entries by a discreet system of points which admirably concealed the personal penchants, if any, of the greatest European motor man (150 cars...
...bevy of Adonises, clad in bathing trunks without tops,*were judged according to standard occidental notions of masculine perfection. Plump tummies, esteemed by Orientals, were ruthlessly penalized by slightly tubby Judge Citroen...