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Word: crillon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry B. Washburn '33 will show ski movies tonight at 8 o'clock in the ball-room of the Hotel Continental. The proceeds from this presentation of the "Attack on Crillon" will be used to pay the salary of Charles W. Proctor, as ski coach, this winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WASHBURN TO PRESENT SKI MOVIES AND SLIDES | 1/17/1934 | See Source »

...hundred colored slides and four thousand feet of film make up this pictorial account of the ascent of Mount Crillon in Alaska. The White Mountain Ski-runners' Club has sponsored Washburn's movie which the Boston Transcript termed the most wonderful ski motion picture ever seen. Harvard men may attend by paying $.75, instead of the general admission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WASHBURN TO PRESENT SKI MOVIES AND SLIDES | 1/17/1934 | See Source »

When Mayor Walker reached Paris last week and took a suite at the Hotel Crillon, correspondents nocked in to ask him about his travelling companion. Unabashed, the Mayor declared: "Dave Maier is a true friend of mine. There's the little Dutchman. Get a good look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Seaburysickness | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...whirls and turns, struggles with its free fore feet, forces its angry head above the water time and again. No human being, no Crillon or Du Guesclin,* could offer equal resistance to inevitable fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Brisbane's Mouse | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...Louis Balbis de Berton de Crillon (1543-1615) French soldier, called by Henry IV "the bravest of the brave." He served under Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX as well as Henrys III and IV. He was not present at and strongly condemned the massacre of the Huguenots on St. Bartholomew's Day (1572), which was instigated by King Charles's mother, Catherine de' Medici. The famed Paris hotel on La Place de la Concorde was named for him. Bertrand Du Guesclin (1320 -1380), constable of France, was the most famed French warrior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Brisbane's Mouse | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

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