Word: franco-american
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...theatrical at Tuxedo Park, N. Y.'s Tuxedo Club, first U. S. country club. Inadvertently she did a double back roll when she was supposed to faint on a sofa. Last week at 80, Lady Charles Mendl, born Elsie de Wolfe, withered, bright-eyed Grand Old Woman of Franco-American socialites, was still doing back rolls, handstands and cartwheels in the garden of her Villa Trianon in Versailles to keep "young." And last week her prosperous, 31-year-old Manhattan decorating firm, Elsie de Wolfe, Inc., held its first exhibition of interiors...
...keeping time with his whole body. . . . Then something fell on my head! It felt like a rafter from the roof. . . ." In the War, Eddie Eagan blacked both eyes of a top-sergeant named Boyle in his San Francisco training camp. He went abroad after the Armistice, fought in Franco-American amateur bouts in Paris. Later he joined the class of 1921 at Yale, won the U. S. amateur heavyweight championship when he was a freshman. At Oxford he coached the Marquis of Clydesdale in boxing, then went world-touring with him. While at Oxford, Eddie Eagan met the Prince...
...However considerable the results obtained by the Franco-American offensive, they seemed, nevertheless, 'inferior to what it was permissible to expect against an adversary assailed everywhere and resisting at certain points with only worn out, heterogeneous and hastily assembled troops...
...side than on the entertaining. The fact that it has sparkle and distinction is almost entirely attributable to blithe, blonde, beauteous Jeanne Aubert, the French comedienne whose husband (Packer Nelson Morris of Chicago) lately sought to enjoin her from taking part in theatricals. Audiences were delighted with her genuine Franco-American accent,* her thoroughgoing naughtiness, her lip-twisting method of vocal delivery -first brought to fame when she popularized the Parisian songlet Si Tu Vois Ma Tante...
...speak frankly in matters of the Franco-American relations now that we have settled our debts. The France-America Society is in reality a veritable escutcheon of the French aristocracy. Let them pay! What have they to do with democratic France...