Word: french
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foul!" Flustered and anxious to avoid a scene, the conference interpreter did not translate into French the insult to M. Cheron?and M. Cheron understands no English. Not until Mr. Snowden was safely away did the Frenchman's bushy white beard begin to bristle. Colleagues had told him what had been said. M. Cheron rushed to the acting chairman of the session, Belgium's Baron Houtart, demanded that he obtain an apology. At Mr. Snowden's hotel, Baron Houtart had to wait some six hours before the Chancellor returned from his outing. Then with a sardonic grin, Philip Snowden wrote...
...first time the Latins realized that they must yield?or adjourn. As a last resort the French started a rumor that J. P. Morgan would consent to act as "mediator," obviously hoped he would. When the story was spiked from a source close to Mr. Morgan, who was in Scotland last week, Prime Minister Aristide Briand intimated that France might make "substantial concessions...
...Author. How much academic education does it take to be a writer earning respectable money? Charles Fulton Oursler, now 36, finished all schooling with seventh grade grammar, in Baltimore. Thereafter he studied French literature, sleight-of-hand, farm implements, music. He earned money by the last three. Real success came with his play, The Spider, a Broadway smash in 1927, now playing in Budapest and Paris. His somewhat spiritualized view of Adah Menken is partly explained by his membership in the American Society for Psychic Research...
Appointed. Capt. René Pugnet; to be Captain of the French liner Paris succeeding Capt. Yves Thomas, who goes on shore duty. After a successful career of 28 years with the French line, Capt. Thomas had three accidents in 18 months, was exonerated from each...
...French liner Rochambeau, then the U. S. liner Roosevelt glided into sight beneath, like shavings on a river. No one on the Zeppelin could hear the passengers' futile hails...