Word: durand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical French soldier's wife was going a bit hungry last week, scrimping to send her man all she possibly could. One Mme Jeanne Durand, who has a job paying $50 monthly and has been sending her husband nothing, was sensationally hauled into court on his demand from the Maginot Line that she be made to live up to the "mutual faithfulness, aid and support" clause in their marriage contract. Setting a legal precedent, the court ordered Mme Durand to pay $2.25 per month toward settling the canteen bill of her drafted husband...
...started when envious French fisherfolk noting that perfidious Britons had built a stone shelter on one of the Minquiers, while law-abiding Frenchmen had none, raised 20,000 francs by public subscription to build one. Led by Yachtsman-Painter "Marin-Marie" (Durand le Couppel de Saint-Front, who in 1936 took a 40-foot motorboat from Manhattan to Cherbourg), 40 Breton fishermen landed on Maitresse, began building...
...visitors have a classy infield with Johnny Piurek at first, Captain Camille Durand at second, Art Duplessis at short, and Dick Blasser at third. Crimson mentor Stahl rates Blasser as one of the most promising intercollegiate hot-corner custodians in New England. Another football star, Hank Quellette cavorts in the center garden, flanked by Bruno Malinowski and Henry Giardi. HARVARD HOLYCROSS Johns, 2b. c.f. Ouellette Gannett, c.f. l.f., Giardi Grondahl, 3b. r.f., Malinowski Lupien, 1b. 3b., Blasser Lovett, l.f. c., Barry Tully, r.f. 1b., Piurek Fulton, c. 2b., Durand Keyes, s.s. s.s., Duplessis Curtiss, p. p., Delaney
...following members of the faculty received grants from the Fund: Willie Apel, George H. Chase, Henry Chauncey, Henry A. Christian, William Dameshok, Dana B. Durand. Ralph E. Fadum. Know, B. Finley, Alden B. Greuinger, Frederick V. Hunt, Perry G. F. Miller, Samuel E. Morison. Arthur E. Norton, Ralph B. Perry, John Reek Reinheld Rudenberg, Karl Sax, Theodore E. Sterne, Theodore J. B. Stier, Paul A. Vesisl, Robert W. Vose, Ralph H. Wetmore, and George E. Wistocki...
...thrust it into the hands of Tipton Cox, 17, a high-school boy who had scuttled in for shelter. Cox, like all the boys in town, knew and admired Earl. Unlike Earl he had never shot a big rifle, but he lay on the floor, took aim. As Durand spied him and raised a smoking rifle, Cox fired. Earl Durand crumpled with a grunt, hit in the chest. He crawled back into the bank, put his revolver to his own temple, pulled the trigger. Bank President Nelson pumped one more bullet into the shaggy, dead head just to make sure...