Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until very recently it was understood that the new line would be inaugurated by a handshake across the Franco-Italian frontier between President Gaston Doumergue and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. That would have been no more than appropriate-for unquestionably this de luxe Riviera route is of greater social importance than the trans-Pyrenean freight line recently opened by the King of Spain and the President of France (TIME, July 23). Unfortunately relations between France and Italy are just now so tense that at the last minute it was considered wiser to omit the gesture of a nation-to-nation...
Pertinent in this connection is the fact that last week the Mexican Ministry of Education put on the air* from Station XFX the notorious assassin José de León Toral, who recently shot General Alvaro Obregon, national hero and President-Elect of Mexico (TIME, July...
...other members of the committee named are: Gordon Huggins '29 of Montclair, N. J. John de Laittre '29 of Minneapolis minn; William Rupert Maclaurin '29 of Boston; Frank Augustus Pickard '29 of Concord Junction; Lawrence Milton Shaporo '29 of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and Richard Waterman Thayer '29 of Boston...
...meeting of the fall held last night in University Hall the Student Council voted $2,091.78 of its funds to pay debts which have accumulated since 1926 and which have been over looked until this fall. At the last meeting of the Council a special committee composed of James de Norman die '29 and E. W. Sexton '29 treasurer was appointed to investigate the outstanding debts of the Council...
...could cause no retching among the most conservative. Forain's aphrodisiac The Charleston showed two vibrant white dancers, several paunchy satyr-spectators, was a triumph of contemporary comment. Picasso's The Mother, a suggestion of haggard peasantry, was as successful in another field. There were gusty, sulphurous landscapes by de Vlaminck, fanciful figures in delicately modulated colors by Eugene Zak. The net effect was one of diversified, eclectic appeal. There was much to please, in many manners...