Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...World." Down narrow streets, through which once swaggered the conquistadors, modern statesmen strolled with ingratiating mien, at that same Palace in La Habana from which lorded "Captains General" in the proud name of Spain, there stopped last week, briefly and peaceably, Calvin Coolidge, El Presidente De Los Estados Unidos. The Pan-American Conference (TIME...
...voice seemed shrill and tired as he spoke to the writer who, with himself, shares the honor of being most respected by the British public. For a few days Thomas Hardy grew stronger. Then one early evening last week after signing a check and reading some of Walter de la Mare's poems, Thomas Hardy died...
Another section is devoted to Talleyrand's niece-by marriage-the beautiful Dorothee de Courland, Duchesse de Dino, and his grand-niece Pauline; and his respective relations with these relations are discuss with guto...
...part played by Mme de Stael in assisting Talleyrand during his exile in obtaining permission for his return to France, and in elevating him to the post of Foreign Minister, is also told without abridgement...
...first section is devoted principally to Talleyrand's life with the beguiling Mme de Flahaut, and-as if that were not enough-the discussion is carried on even unto the uttermost generation, and full details are given of the picturesque and irregular lives of Charles de Flahaut, the son of that union, and of the Duc de Morny...