Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fillet de Cheval Sirs...
...same day, Singer Bori, Diplomat de Ligne, Architect Gilbert, Bishop Manning, Arthur Churchill, Actress Collier, Aviator Lambert, Preacher Fosdick, Actress Mitzi, Constable* Protheroe-Smith. Critic Nathan sailed, variously, by the Roma, Majestic, Paris, Carmania, Lapland, Minnesota; and Oilman Pratt, Publisher Doran, Brewer Doelger arrived on the Berengaria...
...Kate Evelyn Merrick, "The Queen of London Nightclub Keepers," who was sentenced to six months in jail for selling liquor after hours. Vexed were her sons-in-law, Baron de Clifford and the 13th Earl of Kinnoull...
...value (5 francs to $1). By soundest generalship, some retrenchments, and chiefly by the sheer confidence-inspiring power of his personality, M. Poincare caused the franc to double in value without resorting to a foreign loan (TIME, January 3, 1927). That value has been kept stable de facto for 18 months; and now it becomes the approximate stabilized value de jure. For the present, paper francs will be exchangeable for gold bullion and only in relatively large blocs. This will be followed by a new gold coinage and soon almost every French peasant will again jingle gold in his sock...
...crowd of gentlemen in tall grey hats and ladies in wide flat hats stared and murmured. They were afraid Largo's antics would unnerve the favorite Flamingo. With Largo off the course, the other horses started, rounded the curve of the turf in the sunshine with Croix de Guerre, owned by Ogden Mills (father of the U. S. Under Secretary of the Treasury) carrying Jockey Esling and the numeral 13, beating Baron...