Word: french
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eyeing the quarrels and troubles of Russia's Communist leaders was elegant Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich Romanov, from his French villa at Saint-Briac. Chief pretender to the throne of Ah The Russias...
...France. Lank shadows and stocky, the fluttering shadows of dresses, the ridiculous elongated shadows of trousered legs, darted and danced last week all over the reddish scoria of the Roland Garros Stadium courts near Paris. The shadow-casters were most of the ablest tennis amateurs in the world. The French championships in which they were engaged were the first big international matches of the season. Present to display their 1929 form were...
They brought him a cake with 21 candles. That and the French professional golf championship, the first European championship he has ever won, were Horton Smith's birthday presents. To Aubrey Boomer, the St. Cloud professional and Smith's nearest competitor, they brought a score card which Boomer, nervous, could scarcely sign. The figures scribbled on this card showed that Boomer had made a record-breaking 61 (33-28) for 18 holes on the St. Cloud golf course. The course is 6,507 yds. long. Boomer averaged 107 yds. per shot, including puts and approaches. For Gene Sarazen who came...
...French have toward Negroes a laboratory attitude, disinterested, refreshing. Volatile Author Morand reflects it in these stories. One of them, "Good-bye, New York!," tells of an exotic beauty who starts out on a de luxe cruise around Africa. She and her maid occupy the royal suite. Her emeralds are the squarest, her mink the darkest. She speaks to only one fellow-passenger, a Bostonian, whom she takes suavely for her lover. A gossiping busy-body spots her as a Negress "passing" for white, horrifies a huddle of dowagers with the news...
Engaged in the French diplomatic service, Author Morand has written skilful takes of the Sudan, India, Indo-China. His collection of Negro stories is based upon 30,000 miles of travel in 28 Negro countries, from Harlem to Jibuti, Guadeloupe to Timbuktu...