Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republicans were stated to be in a difficult position, having spent a great deal of the estimated $150,000 Mr. de Valera raised earlier in the year in the U. S., which is said to have aided him importantly in capturing 44 seats at the last election. Observers said that it will be difficult for him to raise money now and that the party is likely to suffer as a result. However, Mr. de Valera announced that he is well prepared, and as an indication of the strenuous fight he intends to wage, Republican conventions for naming candidates were held...
Procedure. The delegates held their plenary sessions in the Palais de Rumine, a university auditorium. Prepared speeches were read on topics planned in advance: 1) the necessity for unity, 2) the message of Christianity, 3) the nature of a united church, 4) the common faith, 5) the ministry, 6) the sacraments. After speakers had explained varying views of these essential features, the delegates attended whatever of six smaller discussion groups they chose, where points at issue were thrashed out and six committees framed six reports setting forth propositions on which all denominations might, or might not agree...
...Bremen, Germany, one Paul de Bay donned a burly green coat, shiny boots, a broad leather belt, a two-edged sabre. Anyone, thought Paul de Bay surveying himself before a mirror, would mistake him for a policeman. Smiling, he sauntered into the street...
Soon he saw Irene Baierele, carrying a payroll package from bank to office. With protective gallantry he said to her: "Bow your head and follow me in silence." Arriving at police headquarters they went together to a private room. Here, still gallant, Herr de Bay relieved Fraulein Baierele of her package and vanished, while she waited his return. Later he was discovered in a gambling club, disposing of Fraulein Baierele's package in dishonest fashion. Genuine policemen arrested him, took him to court, removed him, silent, his head bowed, to jail; where for five years he must remain...
...eyes of children looked intently upward. Thirty-five feet above them they saw Arthur Kraft with his mother's silk umbrella. He jumped; the umbrella turned inside out. The doctor examined; reported him unbroken but suffering from shock. Smoke Cloud. Observers saw the black bulk of the lie de France, French liner, approaching New York Harbor. They saw an airplane approach the lie de France, circle it, spouting white smoke. No longer did they see the liner. The smoke test, an Army experiment, had completely swathed the steamship in a shroud...