Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boomer dusted off bottles of Zeltinger Sonnenblick 1929, Chambertin 1923 and Mumm's Cordon Rouge 1926. The brandy was 1865, the water Poland...
...field. When pressure from French public opinion grew too strong, the Government released in France a carefully cut version. It showed Killer Georgieff on the running board of King Alexander's car but suppressed footage proving that he got there with the greatest of ease because the police cordon was scandalously inadequate...
...packed the streets outside. Suddenly guards discovered that the good Bishop was not in his study, nor in his bedroom, nor in his parlor, nor in his bathroom. In fact he was nowhere in his house. Slyly he had skipped through a back door and escaped the police cordon in a car bearing an Augsburg license plate. Squads of mounted police clattered up to St. Matthew's Church, but the Bishop was already inside and in his pulpit. Few paid attention to what he actually said. The purport of the sermon was clear enough, a protest against government interference...
...great herd of cattle that flowed along the Irish roads into cat-famed Kilkenny last week was no ordinary market-day job. For weeks Irish farmers have fought off government collectors come to get the annuity tax. Last week the tax collectors seized the delinquents' cows. A cordon of police accompanied the herd. Mad as Kilkenny cats, the farmers went ahead, felling trees across the road and cutting telephone and telegraph wires. Patiently cows, collectors and police plodded over all obstructions into Kilkenny (known to its own citizens as Cill Cainnig). A sullen mob of farmers watched...
...sous when other Paris newspapers cost five. In 1929 he lost half his fortune, then estimated at $34,000,000, to his divorcing and suing wife, the onetime Yvonne Alexandrine Le Baron, now publisher of Le Figaro. Stockholders gained control of his other newspapers. He owned a cordon of French chateaux including Madame Du Barry's "Luciennes...