Word: etat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...detectives and editors. As the wife of the late John Reed, " Playboy of the Revolution," she has had more adventures in five years than ten ordinary women have in a lifetime. She first met the Communist leaders sketched in her book in 1917 during the Bolshevik coup d'etat which her husband described in what is still the most graphic and authentic picture of the revolution, as "Ten Days That Shook the World." When Reed went to Moscow in 1920 in disguise (being under indictment as one of the founders of the American Communist Labor Party), Louise Bryant followed...
...advise their respective teams. Mr. Haughton whispers to the quarterback; a most remarkable play is carried through, except that the pigskin comes to rest exactly where it was before, and Mr. Fisher chuckles audibly as he views the pile of arms and legs. His own coup d'etat fails as miserably as did his opponent's. A conference of the Big Two is held. They separate. Each tells his team the game is over. "But who won?" "We did", says Mr. Fisher. "We did", says Mr. Haughton. And they...
Combining many of the features of the English parliamentary system of government with the American presidential system, the new German frame of government undertakes an innovation which commands the attention of all who live under a republican government. Fear of a coup d'etat by the junker element, coupled with machinations of the present capitalist regime have thus far prevented the new Constitution of Germany from getting under way. The Ruhr crisis may furnish the required stimulus and with a president chosen by the vote of the whole German people a more definite course of action, for better...
...amorous book, "L'academie des Philosophes sur l'amour"; belonged to what court lady? No lady at all but to the staid Montesquieu, that man whose works Professor Munro always recommends but which no undergraduate has ever read. Perhaps that wary looking volume, which the card describes as "Etat des troupes et des etats-major des places"--once wholted the stern glance of Richelieu. It was Madame de Pompadour's and she, upon receiving it from His Majesty, probably placed it among her perfumed volumes never to be opened. There is another book which I know must have been opened...
...dress and manners shock the slumbering inhabitants into buzzing activity. All the men, young and old, flock around her, and inhale new life from her glowing personality and energetic example. Deftly she deals telling blows at the smug complacency of the Academy savants and as a final coup d'etat arranges the marriage of Marcella to Enrico...