Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every 75 inhabitants of Paris there is a retailer of alcoholics-in all 32,000, counting cafes, bars, brasseries, cabarets, and boits de unit ("night boxes...
Father Projuarez crumpled down. A police sergeant, drawing his revolver, went over and pressed it against the prostrate man's temple. Pulling the trigger, he administered the official coupe de...
...Washington. There followed study in New York, with Farrar the Student a frequent standee at the "Met," learning the ways of Melba, Calvé, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszké, learning to her greater advantage what pleased the purse-poor folk around her who scarcely missed a performance. She studied a year in Washington, was taken one afternoon to call on Mrs. McKinley. News came: DEWEY VICTORIOUS AT MANILA?and Farrar, still the Student, sat down at the piano, played and sang the "Star Spangled Banner...
Other Plans. The North German Lloyd Line is building two liners at Bremen, intended to be the fastest ships afloat. The French Line contemplates a ship larger than its 43,500-ton Ile de France; and the Italian Line is seriously thinking of two of nearly like size...
...BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY- Thornton Wilder-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). "On Friday noon, July the 20th, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below." The five people were: The Marquesa de Montemayor and Pepita, her companion, Esteban, the brother of Manuel, Uncle Pio, and Don Jaime the son of the actress whom he had loved and made famous. Now why had a bridge upon whose miraculous high path everyone in Peru had stepped at one time or another postponed its decay to include these particular people in its destruction...