Word: french
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French Ambassador M. Paul Claudel, famed poet, philosopher, mystic. A chubby, bald, scraggly-mustached man, he is so shy that formal diplomatic entertainments are obnoxious to him. In Japan, his last ambassadorial post, he was almost a national hero because of his literary achievements, his appreciation of difficult Oriental art. Last week he said: "I shall not surrender a privilege of so many years' standing...
...Treasury Seymour Lowman said: ''We have been trying to get him for a long time. He has been suspected of participating in a bootleg ring that has brought large quantities of liquor into the country." The Count de Polignac is in charge of foreign agents for the French champagne firm Pommery & Greno of which the Marquis Melchior de Polignac, the Count's first cousin, is president. Often he travels in Canada, in South America, less often in the U. S. Last summer he was in Algiers. Arrested with the Count last week was one Philip Gowen...
...French have a passion for pulling things down, but it is not their strong point. I should be glad if the statue King George on the Bowling Green in New York were still standing today--then I should know which George he was. It was destroyed during the Revolution...
TODAY Comp. Philology 2a hf.Emerson D Economics 30 Harvard 2 Fine Arts 17 Fogg Small Rm. French 2 Mr. Bowen, 3 Harvard 6 Mr. Carriere, 11 New Lect. Hall Mr. Chalufour, 9, 18 Emerson D Mr. Darby, 16 Emerson J Mr. Francon, 2, 4, 14, 15 New Lect. Hall Mr. Funnell, 17 Emerson J Mr. Mellor, 6 Emerson J Mr. Moffatt, 12 New Lect. Hall Mr. Pillionnel, 7 New Lect. Hall Mr. Raiche, 5 Emerson D Mr. Raphael, 13 New Lect. Hall Mr. Roberts, 8, 10 Harvard 5 Dr. Webster, 1 Harvard 6 Philosophy 11 Emerson D Zoology 7a Emerson...
...absence of F. A. Clark '29, who will be with the crew at Red Top throughout Commencement week, A. R. Sweezy '29 will act as third marshal at the Class Day and Commencement exercises net week, according to an announcement made last night by A. E. French '29, first marshal of the graduating class...