Word: french
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hague, the delegates saw only a large, immaculate wooden house, with a severe square courtyard opening directly off a public street. The house was full of crisp, sweet-scented Dutch flowers, primly arranged in tall vases. There was drink to match the national taste of every guest: French champagne, German hock. British whisky, Italian lacrima christi, Japanese sake, also water and long black cigars from Dutch Sumatra...
...that day she swam, all that night. She was lost for hours from accompanying boats. On she swam. The next evening she reached Geneva, 37¼ miles from her starting place. She is the only person ever known to accomplish the feat. Last year fat Georges Michel, channel-swimming French baker, attempted it, had to give...
...reason for the fame of Paris is that great building projects have for centuries appealed to the imagination of French rulers. Nowadays, however, the world's great monuments of architecture are reared in the U. S. It was inevitable that sooner or later the French would be driven by their imagination to take a hand in the game. Last week it happened. The French Government, in combination with Builder Irwin S. Chanin and Banker Simon William Straus, dramatically revealed a $50,000,000 Gallic dream...
...piece of Manhattan Island, 200 feet in shortest dimension, 498 feet in longest, just north of Columbus Circle, comprising the entire block in which the Century Theatre now stands. On this plot the dream will rise, garnished in every one of its 65 stories with the glories of modern French art and architecture. There is even a whisper that its walls may be of glass...
...consist of a 30-story, 1,200-room apartment hotel to be operated by "one of the most famous hostelries of Paris." The frontage on Broadway will consist of a 65-story office building. The first three floors of the latter will be occupied by stores and showrooms of French shops and industries...