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...other than scholastic include: Officier de la Legion d' Honneur, 1906, Commandeur, 1912, Grand Officier, 1921; Order of Red Eagle (with star) of Prussia, 1910; Grand Commander of the Royal Order of the Redeemer, ist Class (Greece), 1918; Grand Cross Order of St. Sava, ist Class (Jugoslavia), 1919: Grand Cordon Order of Leopold (Bel-gium), 1921; Grand Officer Order of Polonia Restituta. 1923; Commander of Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Italy), 1924; Grand Cross Order of the Crown of Roumania, 1927: Order of the White Lion, ist Class (Czechoslovakia), 1027. loudly Dr. Butler trumpets for Peace, the Republican Party...
North. Under Agua Caliente's bizarre red roofs and stucco walls are gambling rooms where cinema celebrities and others who can afford to lose are encouraged to expand the limits at roulette, birdcage, chemin de fer, craps. There is small call for champagne cheaper than Mumm's Cordon Rouge. Agua Caliente's golf tournament-first prize $15,000-is the richest in the world. Even more of an attraction than these for Hollywood plutocrats has been the racetrack, which was constructed at a cost of $2,500,000 by removing part of a mountain. The Annual Agua...
...Lyons someone presented him with a goat, which was promptly placed in the baggage car. The special train reached Paris at 6 a. m. Even at that hour at least 500 people were waiting outside a police cordon for a sight of the Saint. The Mahatma emerged briefly and remarked that Paris looked much the same as it had when first he saw it 40 years...
...memory of the "Four Days of Liberty" under Blanquier, locked themselves in the building and hung revolutionary flags from the windows. A crowd of over 2,000 organized a parade and attempted to march to Chile's White House, the Casa Moneda. Kept away by a formidable cordon of police, the crowd retreated, relieved its feelings by tossing bricks through the windows of the Casa del Pueblo (founded by Ibanez). Then it gathered in front of the home of Miguel Letelier who had been suggested in the evening papers as Minister of the Interior, and set up a sing...
...Monsieur le President," said General Dubail, bestowing the cordon and collar on M. Doumer, "we recognize you as Grand Master of the Legion of Honor...