Word: french
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diplomatic ascendancy he served in Athens, Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, St. Petersburg, London, Berlin. Golf he plays, but prefers to collect art, read, dine elegantly. Since his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1926 he has lived in a big stone house in Washington, which he has adorned with old French stone carvings under the eaves, a formal French garden. Close friends are Art Lovers Laughlin and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon...
...through the summer, Usurper Habibullah has been harassed by the lean, ruthless, white-chinned Nadir Khan, ill-famed for boiling his captured enemies in oil (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week Nadir converged three armies of overwhelming might upon Kabul. Prudent Habibullah fled in an airplane to escape being French-fried. Without resistance the city fell. Since victorious Nadir was once a general in the service of ousted King Amanullah, news of his triumph was received with elation by the exiled weakling in Rome...
Claude Farrere, racy French novelist (Les Civiliises), bowling along in an automobile with his friend, Author Pierre Benoit (Les Suppliantes), was injured in a crash near Toulouse, France...
Several changes are seen in the 1933 line-up which Coach A. E. French '29 will send against Worcester Academy at Worcester today, in the third game of the Freshman season. H. K. Wells '33, quarterback, will play his first game as captain against the team which defeated Dean 32 to 0 last week, when the Harvard Freshmen tied the Exeter eleven...
...academics of the Fourth Class Year do not sound difficult. They consist of advanced algebra, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, plane analytic geometry, French and English. The Plebe has two subjects a day, Math and French or English, alternating. He also has physical training each day, but this does not require outside preparation. However, even if these subjects do not seem hard to those on the outside, they are, and this is what makes them so. Before the Plebe entered here, in other schools he spent most of the time in classes, being instructed...