Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winner of the debate is given the Pasteur Medal. This award was established and first presented in 1898 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, to be awarded annually to the best debater on a subject drawn from contemporary French politics. While the speeches are always in English, the administration of the prize is in the hands of the French Department...
...Comite France Amerique Competition. Candidates will speak in French for five minutes on any subject pertaining to France, and will be judged by Professor Hawkins, Professor L. J. A. Mercier, and Mr. E. L. Raiche. The men chosen for the finals will give declamations in French "on some subject drawn from the history of French civilization" the victor is awarded La Medaille France Amerique...
Just 100 years ago this season, Washington society was convulsed by the celebrated Peggy O'Neill Eaton case. While the details of the Eaton and Gann cases are not similar, analogies between them have been drawn. Peggy O'Neill was the daughter of a Washington innkeeper. She was pretty and pert-and sharp-tongued as any barmaid. Andrew Jackson put up at the O'Neill tavern with his Tennessee friend, John H. Eaton. In January, 1829, Eaton married Peggy. On March 4, Jackson became President and appointed Eaton his Secretary of War. Washington society turned fiercely upon...
...Mayor James John Walker the decision brought political joy because he had championed the nickel fare. To Lawyer Charles Evans Hughes it brought legal melancholy because he had drawn up the I. R. T. brief. On Wall Street, I. R. T. stocks dropped 20 points in about the time that it takes a subway train to rush from Manhattan to Brooklyn...
...recent resignation of Marshal Feng from the post of Nationalist War Minister (TIME, April 8), strengthened the rebels' confidence that he would aid them against the Government; but as battle lines were drawn, last fortnight, Feng remained steadfast, and when definite confirmation of this reached Hankow, last week, the house of cards collapsed. Despatches indicated that Master Mind Chiang had kept Marshal Feng's allegiance by promising that he and his peculiar Private Army shall be allowed to occupy and police the rich Chinese province of Shantung. Though the rebels were utterly routed at Hankow on the north...