Word: clemenceau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gourmet Albert Sarraut is one of France's great empire builders, a stocky, twinkly-eyed Senator with a warm sense of humor, an icy sense of duty and the charmed life of a tomcat. At the turn of the century Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau picked young Tomcat Sarraut as a likely scrapping partner in the bitter Dreyfus affair. As Clemenceau's Under- secretary of Interior, M. Sarraut was challenged by a certain Deputy Pugliesi-Conti to duel over the rehabilitation of Jew Dreyfus. He accepted "on condition that it is to the death." Tomcat Sarraut's seconds thought...
...lolling about and scratching themselves in a barbed wire paddock; the bombardment of Ypres; a German officer burning his tongue on a spoonful of soup in Brussels in the summer of 1914. Some of the performers in The Big Drive are Lord Kitchener. Elsie Janis. Baron Manfred von Richthofen. Clemenceau. the Crown Prince, Tsar Nicholas of Russia. Producer Albert L. Rule, who was a private in the American Expeditionary Forces, accompanies his picture with a lecture which should have been composed by someone else...
...Champs Elysées in Paris, on the third anniversary of his death, was dedicated a statue of Wartime Premier Georges Clemenceau, clad in his trench-visiting tin hat and thick coat. Present were President Albert Lebrun, Premier Edouard Herriot, General Max Weygand. Notably absent were Clemenceau's son and two daughters. Long protesting against this "insignificant" monument in a "nonexistent square," they objected also to the statue's muffler, declaring their father never wore...
...also doubled for Punch) promptly criticized it as "ignoring all accepted canons of good drawing, good color and good painting." In 1881-82 the picture was shown in Philadelphia and New York. Nobody thought enough of it to bid the $1,000 Jimmy Whistler was asking. In 1889 Georges Clemenceau, already a figure in French politics, saw it in a dealer's window in Paris and pulled wires to have it bought for the Luxembourg. Two years later the French Government got it for 2,000 francs ($400). In 1926 it was promoted to the Louvre to take...
...Victor Emmanuel Chapman Memorial Fellowship which is given to a French student to study at Harvard, has been awarded to Pierre Brodin, who is at present teaching at the Lycee Clemenceau at Nantes. The Stillman Scholarship, also awarded to a French student, will be held by Henri Supper, a graduate of the Ecole Speciale des Travaux of Paris, for study in the Harvard Engineering School. The Jay Backus Woodworth Fellowship in Geology, given in honor of the late Professor Woodworth by his students, has been awarded to Howard A. Powers, of Brookings, South Dakota. The James Edward Ditson Fund, providing...