Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Suez Canal, has she forgotten how many objections and obstacles she put up to de Lesseps from 1854 to 1869 when it was completed, due to his perseverance, and that of the money that built it, not a cent was English? And that in 1875 when she realized the canal's use to her Eastern route, she tried to gain control of it by buying 176.602 shares? And that today French directors of the Suez Canal Co.. which controls it, are 21 to the 10 British, while the French-owned stock is 56% to Britain's 44%? And that...
Vacancy. Outside of his own clique of back-scratchers in Louisiana, Huey Long had few friends in public life. On the principle of de mortuis nil nisi bonum, his numerous enemies gave the Kingfish a charitable verbal sendoff. Spokesmen like General Johnson, Father Coughlin, James A. Farley and the New York Times chorused, in effect: "I didn't like anything about him, but I'm sorry he was assassinated...
...only return to public life during his vacation was on September 4 when he addressed the Harvard Club of France at the Pavillion Royale in the Bois de Boulogne. Also on the program was Phillippe-Jules-Fornand Baldensperger who was appointed last spring as professor of Comparative Literature for the next five years...
...faithful old servants. She used her great strength to throw things around in her fits of rage, keeping the household in terror. She planted several of her lovers, all great, beefy, stalwart fellows, around the Prince, so that all his movements were reported to her. The aging de Condé, feeble, crippled, harried night & day, was nagged, abused, tormented, once appeared with a badly bruised eye, once screamed that Sophie was trying to cut his throat, eventually signed the will that Sophie demanded. He had said he would be killed if he ever signed...
Sophie was received at court, where she was as welcome as a leper. The revolution of 1830 placed Louis Philippe on the throne. Prince de Condé, still surrounded by Sophie's brawny cousins and lovers, tried to flee the country, was discovered by Sophie and subsequently strangled in his bed. An investigation, establishing Sophie's guilt, was suppressed by the king. Sophie had her wealth, her entrée into society, but she was hissed in the theatre, snubbed on all sides, while her scandal nearly overthrew the government. She developed into a monstrous, muscular, scowling...