Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When that tired old Spaniard, Juan Ponce de Leon, landed with flags and thirst and prayers of thanksgiving upon the southeastern strand of North America, he at once inquired after a specific against old age and mortality-a miracle-flowing spring of everlasting youth and happiness...
Asked which was now the smartest Paris night club, Editor Gwynne said: "Still the Blue Room - unquestionably! . . . The great hit of the Paris stage this year is Paul Bourget's Vient de Paraître. He has very cleverly dramatized the popular idea that nearly all the great French literary prizes are won through pull with. the judges...
...fireman bounds out of bed and rushes to a fire, so Crown Prince Pierre de Polignac of Monaco bounded into a sleeping car berth at Paris and rushed off to Monte Carlo...
Mediocrity is the order of the evening at the Majestic Theatre, for the present at least. "Cafe de Danse" is mildly amusing in spots, but in its present form presents no startling features...
Presently the British Minister, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, arrived at Nanking and signed with Dr. Wang a treaty granting de jure recognition of the Nationalist regime by His Majesty's Government, and according to Great Britain, "most favored nation" status under the new Chinese Tariff Law, effective...