Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French Croix de Guerre. As a member of that Rumanian order I was sent to the funeral of King George. I was never a masseur as stated by that radical London paper, but I regret that I am not one as I would have loved to rub the bones of the reporter who invented that stupid story. Thank you for your correction and I wish to assure you of my gratitude. CONST. N. COTOLAN School teacher and Grammar school supervisor Dragoslavele, Muscel, Rumania...
...whose spidery limbs and thin beaked nose give him the air of a flamingo. Flapping gestures complete the illusion and Premier Blum last week was also bird-like in his air of being exquisitely preened and valeted. Spotless were his pearl-grey spats. Faint was his aroma of eau de Cologne. He had just set up one of the very largest Cabinets ever formed in France, a ministry in which so many Radical Socialists and Socialists had found places (along with a self-styled "Dissident Communist") that the Cabinet had to be officially divided into seven sections, an unprecedented step...
...pious wife; Emily Newell Blair, writer and Democratic politician; Episcopal Bishop Walter Mitchell of Arizona; Mrs. Henry Noble MacCracken, wife of the president of Vassar College; Mrs. Henry Guggenheim, wife of the onetime Ambassador to Cuba; Mr. and Mrs. F. Shepard Cornell, Manhattan socialites; Lord Addington of England; Baroness de Watteville-Berckheim of Paris; Dr. J. E. W. Duys of The Netherlands Parliament; Carl Vrooman, onetime Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; Bernard Hallward, director of the Montreal Star; Herman Hintzen, Rotterdam banker; Eric Bentley, Canadian businessman; W. Farrar Vickers, British businessman; Sir Philip Dundas,of Edinburgh. Likewise present were the usual...
...shipboard chum, scrawny French Poet Jean Cocteau, who is trying to win a bet with a Paris newspaper by equaling the record of Jules Verne's Phineas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days. If he wins. Poet Cocteau writes 20 articles for the paper for "beaucoup de francs." If he loses, he writes them free...
Under Dean Everett Victor Meeks, the School of Fine Arts began winning the Prix de Rome with an almost monotonous regularity...