Word: duvalls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senators go from the Senate? People often wonder. Some, of course, stay in the public-eye?Atlee Pomerene of Ohio by being oil scandals lawyer (see p. 12); Elihu Root by continuing as a patriarch of the bar; Chauncey Depew by becoming a nonagenarian. Others become somewhat obscure. James Duval Phelan is an opulent San Francisco booster & developer. Magnus Johnson still farms the Minnesota dirt whence sprouted his short fame. Dr. Irwin France of Maryland travels and keeps up his interest in Guernsey cows. Truman Handy Newberry of Michigan keeps up his club memberships, helps direct banks, goes yachting. John...
Married. Elizabeth Raoul-Duval, niece of U. S. Minister to The Hague, Richard M. Tobin; to Jean Coutourie, brother of Duchesse Decazes and Comtesse Charles de Lesseps; in Paris...
Later, in President Peret's office, M. Magne declared that the insulting word had not been intended for ex-Premier Painlevé, but "as a simple commentary on défaitists [name given to the pacifists during the war] like Bolo, Duval and Almerleda." The insult had been provoked by M. Mandel. This explanation was made public in the Chambre and was accepted...
...Elsinore and off into the West, you didn't feel like crying. A tragic climax such as that one gives a feeling of mystery and terror much more than of pity. When, on the other hand, you see Camille dying by inches in the postponed embrace of Armand Duval, you do want to weep...
...Lambert's Armand was sincere and moving. His earlier love scenes and his scene of denunciation were skilfully handied. But half the impassioned zest of this redeeming love affair was lost by the middle-aged reasoned and seasoned appearance of the players. The Georges Duval of M. Ravet was rather colorless and disappointing...