Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon the Chamber of Deputies and various Ministries," flatly declared L'Oeuvre. "In the early hours of the uprising a certain number of summary executions are foreseen. On the black list are most radical former Ministers. The manner of execution will be to throw victims from the Pont de la Concorde into the Seine." On the fateful day a cold Paris drizzle was enough to send all dissident elements into their favorite cafes, blowing on their fingers and puffing with indignation. At the last minute the so-called "Popular Front" of Radical Socialists, Socialists and Communists opposing the Premier...
Introduced by a short speech by Robert A. Turner '37, the French club will produce its annual play, "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac", in the Lowell House Dining Room tonight at 8.30 o'clock...
...patrolmen in a cruising car pulled up in front of "No. 6 Club, waited to be thwacked, were not disappointed. Spying a raised, unlighted window on the third floor, they sneaked upstairs, found Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt, 19-year-old son of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, a friend named Peter de Florez, an air gun modeled on a German Luger pistol, a supply of pellets twice the size of ordinary BB shot. At the police station whither he was taken on a charge of assault & battery, Sniper Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt was asked to identify himself, replied: "The other Roosevelt...
WITH NAPOLEON IN RUSSIA-General de Caulaincourt-Morrow...
General Armand de Caulaincourt, first Duke of Vicenza, was born in Picardy in 1773, became a soldier at the age of 14, a brevetted second lieutenant at 15, a member of the National Guard during the French Revolution, was jailed as an aristocrat at 19. In the turbulent years that followed, when military careers fell to young men. he became Napoleon's aide-de-camp, was twice wounded, had seen 15 years of service at the age of 29. Two scandals darkened his life. He was unjustly suspected of responsibility for the murder of the Duke of Enghien...