Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...European ramble has left behind such anomalies as that swank Rome dance bands are still being asked by Italian socialites to play The Sidewalks of New York. On the sidewalks of Dublin last week Mr. Smith remarked to reporters how calm the polling seemed, came away from a big de Valera political rally to exclaim: "It was almost as unanimous as a Tammany meeting...
...years ago, returning on the lie de-France, Miss Elizabeth Ann Ahearn, 68, a devout school principal of Danvers, Mass. who had been six times received by the Pope, died of a stroke while in her bathtub. She had been sleeping daily until noon because of poor health and her death was not discovered for some 14 hours. Ship's doctors found it inadvisable to embalm the body and the captain called upon Catholic priests aboard to officiate at a sea burial. Subsequently four cousins sued the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line) for $100,000 for their mental anguish...
Last week Air France and the French Line joined in creating a new concern called Companie Air France-Transatlantique. It announced that the lumbering old flying boat Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, which capsized in Pensacola Bay 18 months ago after flying up from South America, had been rebuilt, would soon start test flights across the North Atlantic. Lufthansa last week announced that it would start test flights to the U. S. in the first week of July with "the two biggest two-float hydroplanes ever constructed." These trim monoplanes, called Nordmeer and Nordwind, are powered by four Diesel engines apiece...
Editor Bernard de Voto of the Saturday Review of Literature . . . . . .Litt.D...
...Princeton University, in whose graduate school he studied 17 years ago, an honorary LL.D. On the platform the premier will meet again his good and potent friend, U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, there for the same purpose. Recalling two notable Harvard LL.D.'s-the Marquis de Lafayette (1784) and Prince Henry of Prussia (1902)-Princeton's van Zeeland provided a newsworthy international fillip to the annual intercollegiate kudos season, never more lively than this year at commencements all over...