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...which no French Premier has held since the election of 1924 returned a Chamber so evenly divided between Right and Left that it has not known its own mind with conviction for two years. Staccato Declaration. The Chamber quieted-eventually. Premier Poincaré read his ministerial declaration in a crisp, resolute, staccato monotone: "The Cabinet which presents itself before you has been formed in a spirit of national reconciliation to meet the danger which threatens the value of our money, the liberty of our treasury and the equilibrium of our finances. . . . "There may arise later questions on which the Cabinet...
...possesses only five dollars fancy he has caught you in the act of stealing one of them and you have started a fight. Last week the franc plunged suddenly from 40 to the dollar to nearly 50. Frenchmen, clutching crisp or crinkly banknotes, felt their wealth oozing from them as insidiously as though they grasped a handful of slime. What to do? "Naturally"-with blind instinctive no-logic-they hit out. At whom? At Herriot, whose ambitious folly had overturned the Briand Cabinet (TIME, July 26)? Yes. M. Herriot was mobbed, though he escaped. (See "Presidents, Premiers.") But there...
...after the ball. In 1922 she played through all the important tournaments, won the doubles with Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup, and gave Molla Mailory a run for the singles. The sports writers boosted her and she acquired a "public." You could not help liking the steady eyes under the crisp sun-visor,* the strong, immature body in the short white skirt and pull-on blouse. That winter she grew four inches. When she began her eastern season at Seabright in 1923 TIME, reporting possibilities for the national title, said "She looms...
Leading the rest in point of authority is a spinster of 50, the last crisp leaf of a Dutch-American tree, incredibly wealthy, intellectual, unable to sleep until dawn and therefore noted for midnight suppers from which her guests escape with difficulty. Her private musicians fill the remaining night hours with concerts from esoteric composers, to which she listens with "the finest contrapuntal ear of her day." It is she, Elizabeth Grier, ever alert for novelty, who attaches the young New Englander to the Cabala and involves him in its members' affairs...
...wealth of Cornelius I clung to the family through the generations, but Vanderbilt skill and dominance seems to have thinned. Here begins the story of Cornelius IV, fifth in the line of primogeniture. A chubby-featured boy with crisp curly hair, some thought they could discern in him an underlying physical frailty. He went to St. Paul's school with other sons of wealth. He got his higher education at Harstrom's Tutoring School. He went to France during the War in the Ambulance Service and was gassed, decorated...