Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Publishers Harcourt Brace & Co. will spring the surprise. They paid a reputed $35,000 for the U. S. book rights. First U. S. publisher to discover that the Tiger would write his memoirs was astute Albert Boni of Albert Charles Boni, Inc. From Paris last spring he went out to see the old gentleman. He learned that the best offer Clémenceau had had for world rights on the book was 25,000 francs ($1,000), from a French publisher. Publisher Boni offered $25,000. Amazed, delighted, M. Clémenceau struck the bargain then and there. But Publisher...
Both are young, personable, Roman Catholic. Many an inspired despatch has linked their names, praised her 'cello playing, his dexterity at the wheel of a roaring motor, her welfare work among Belgian babies, his dashing career as an Italian colonel. She met him first in Rome when she was only eleven, while spike-helmeted Germans were trampling her own Brussels. Last week he came with a suite of 31 Italian nobles to seek her hand. Only a bullet was needed to make completely romantic the engagement, officially proclaimed at Brussels, of Marie Jose, third child and only daughter...
...Italy he felt obliged to respond to cheering with the Fascist salute. Previously H. R. H., like other young Royalist officers, has used the military salute. Standing on a balcony of the Royal Palace in Milan, while a Fascist mob made pandemonium below, the Heir of Italy for the first time raised his right arm stiff-elbowed and with palm extended, aped II Duce...
Plum's first coups were not in butter but small arms. During the War he sold some thousands of Danish recoil rifles, grew vain, secretly published an anonymous biography of himself crammed with pictures of Balkan and European royalties, implying that all had received him whereas many...
...Brun) were, he knew, verging on insolvency, due to too great and rapid expansion. More than once in such crises Harald Plum had fiddled with the pistol which he always kept at hand. He claimed that the touch of cold steel soothed him, reminded him that his first millions were made in guns. Last week the pistol went off and Harald Plum crumpled, wounded but not dead...