Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front of the Chamber he stroked his little white beard, tapped for order occasionally with an ivory paper cutter, but there were few occasions to ring the huge brass bell reserved for bigger ructions. A nervous crowd, kept in hand by a line of police, moiled about the Place de la Concorde and over the bridge to the Palais Bourbon, shouting "Save the franc!" Inside, important speeches were going on but few paid attention. Over the backs of benches, from ear to ear a whisper rustled like the echo of a thousand leaves: When was Flandin coming? When would...
...institutions of higher learning, after Governor Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo's spectacular purge of 179 presidents, deans, professors. When Bilbo's successor reinstated the purged pedagogs, Mississippi was returned to favor. Currently in academic Coventry are Harris Teachers College (St. Louis). Rollins College, Brenau College (Gainesville, Ga.), De Pauw University and the U. S. Naval Academy. No loyal Association member will take a job at any of these institutions...
...Arbor, Mich. A wry caption explained: "These remarkable pictures . . .were taken with the slow motion picture camera (magic eye, my aunt) of the Detroit Free Press." Cameraman Joseph Kalec, slim, dark, saturnine, a onetime Army flyer, made no secret of the fact that he used an ordinary De Vry 35 mm. cinema camera. But he had been obliged to tinker the shutter speed to get "stills" that could be enlarged without blurring...
...from San Francisco to New York, Baron Henri de Rothschild, practicing physician, essayist, playwright, perfumer, big game hunter, winemaker but no banker (TIME, May 20), was asked by Chicago newshawks about international finance, the position of the franc. Shrugged Dr. de Rothschild: "It's too early in the morning to talk about world finance...
Melzi's son sold most of the manuscripts to one Pompeo Leoni, sculptor at the Spanish court, who in turn sold at least one volume to a Spaniard named Don Juan de Espina. This volume attracted the notice of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, friend to Anthony Van Dyck. For more than ten years the earl's agents nagged de Espina to sell. When Arundel died in 1646 he owned the book, but by that time Charles I had surrendered to the Scots rebels. Hence, suggests Kenneth Clark, the drawings did not at once pass to the British...