Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such was the substance of a threatening press communique issued, last week, by the Hungarian Dictator, stern, cold, relentless Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen...
Thus by a single coup de politique the Great Power whose name stands axiomatically for a free Parliament and free speech, deprived Egyptians of all parliamentary or democratic expression and gagged them into nonresistance...
Sponsored by exotic novelist M. Maurice de Waleffe were cool culottes de juillet (Breeches of July) much resembling the "shorts" already worn by smart U. S. males-as nether underwear. With the culottes is worn a waspish waisted jacket. Formal evening attire of quite similar cut was presented at Deauville in sheer green or violet silk, topped with a silk hat of matching hue, and completed by a nuvelle chemise-d'habille (new dress shirt)-soft,-collarless, and deeply "V" cut to display virile hirsute chests...
...Giuseppe De Luca Clarence Whitehill
King, Dictator, President. When spruce, bronzed King Alfonso had conferred with paunchy, florid General de Rivera to their two hearts' content, they chuffed by special train to a remote and unheard of village in the Pyrenees called Canfrane. There a shiny new electric locomotive was hitched to the special, drew it up a terrifically steep grade to an altitude of 3,600 feet, and stopped dead in the very midnight middle of the Samport Tunnel...