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Emile Daeschner is 61 years of age and was born in Alsace. His diplomatic experience has earned for him the epithet of "best trained diplomat in the French service." He has held posts in the Embassies at London and Madrid and was Minister to Lisbon and Bucharest. In the Quai d'Orsay he has served under such eminent statesmen as Premiers Rouveer and Poincaré and the famed League of Nations champion, Senator Leon Bourgeois...
...epithet, "plutogog" has few equals. It supercedes the seductiveness of a sibilant with the harshness of a Greek compound. It is a word which will positively drive the bill-collector and the wolf from the door, and reinforced by "peewit", may even stave off the landlord for another month. Away, plutogogs...
...places are Mr. Herbert Heyes and Miss Kay Hammond, and if last night's performance is any criterion, the change is decidedly not for the worse. If Mr. Heyes is as pleasing in straight roles as he was Monday night as the young man about town--a much abused epithet--who misjudges his alcoholic capacity, Mr. Gilbert's absence will not be noticed. Miss Hammond, too, was all that could be desired. We shall await with interest her portrayal of more exacting roles...
...young man of great brains and tremendous power, but no match for Gen. Wu, who once sadly defeated him. Manchuria is about the size of Texas and Colorado, forming enough territory in northern China to make Marshal Chang's title of War Lord of the North no empty epithet...
...good fight well fought" was the epithet used to describe the Varsity boat race at the 57th Yale-Harvard Regatta.* The outcome was never in doubt, even before the event started; in such circumstances, Harvard's performance was a high tribute to their courage, determination and sportsmanship...