Word: enfant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Strike times "Jumping Jack" was one of the most popular Laborites in England and the enfant terrible of the House of Commons. Nowadays, with jobs scarce and employers holding the whip hand, Mr. Jones no longer jumps. His howlers down cried, "Keep out the Reds, but let all the rest...
Channel swimmers take off from Cap Gris Nez, France. Last week the Breton fishing trawler Sainte Therese de L'Enfant Jesus was wallowing past Cape Gray Nose when Captain Jean Marie Bougrad espied a body that did not swim...
...young woman dodged through the cordon of police at the palace gate, sprinting for the portal. She was Miss Prudence ("Cherub") Trotter, smart enfant terrible, daughter of august Sir Victor Murray Coutts Trotter, Chief Justice of the High Court of Madras. She brandished an appeal. It besought His Majesty to urge upon Parliament in his Speech from the Throne immediate passage of the bill giving votes to all women over 21. Miss Trotter, just 20, evidently did not know that the boon she craved had already been drafted into the text of the Speech from the Throne. Soon...
...lives away from the world in the forest at Montfort-l'Amaury, concerning himself with the creation of music: for grown-ups his orchestral valse, his mocking Tziganes, his naughty I'Heure Espagnole; for children, his lovely Mother Goose suite and l'Enfant et les Sortileges?a happier balance than his contemporaries have found. In the U. S. for three months, he will conduct the New York, Boston, San Francisco and Cleveland orchestras, will appear also in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Denver, St. Louis, Houston and Philadelphia...
...Inventor. Electrical genius made D. D. Knowles an enfant terrible in his early youth. From wiring doorknobs and pianos to shock imprudent visitors in his Ohio home, he turned to electric traps for the destruction of hen-ravishing hawks. Less than four years ago he was graduated by Purdue University...