Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Briand, successfully avoiding the Council meeting (see below), eventually did arrive, confounding the wiseacres. And upon his arrival at the Hotel les Bergues, the lively little Frenchman was soon holding animated conversation with the stolid, sleek German Foreign Minister, Herr Doktor Gustav Stresemann...
Died. Alexander Dumas, painter, direct descendant of Alexandre Dumas, famed Frenchman, author of Camille and many another romantic novel; in Mitchell...
Hence the unusual crowds last week at St. Andrews, cradle of golf. They banked the fairways with solid walls of humanity, 20,000 strong. An obscure Frenchman named Rene Golias led half the qualifying play with a 71, and Cyril Tolley, the ponderous English amateur, led the whole flight with 144. But the main galleries followed "Bawby" Jones. Excursion trains stopped to watch him. Clergymen, grandmothers, policemen, cripples made shift to get a view. Wet greens-had bothered his putts at first but his second score, a 71, was a portent. Less whiskery than Tom Morris Jr. but quite...
...obliged by contract to pilot Mr. Levine and declined the latter's invitation to fly the Columbia home. Mr. Levine approached Lieut. Bernt Balchen, Byrd aide, and Sir Alan Cobham of England, but without success. Then it occurred to Mr. Levine that his homeward pilot might well be a Frenchman. He approached Pilot Pelletier D'Oisy, Paris-to-Tokyo aeronaut. He talked with one-legged Pilot Tarascon, who was to have flown the Atlantic last year with the late Pilot Coli. Finally, after long night sessions, he decided on Maurice Drouhin, whose private plans were virtually complete. He made Pilot...
Clarence D. Chamberlin, contradicting dark rumors that he bore Mr. Levine ill will, flew with Maurice Drouhin to London in the Levine-owned Columbia, to show the Frenchman its tricks and abilities. From London, Maurice Drouhin and the Columbia conveyed Mr. Levine back to Paris, where Mr. Levine rejoined his attorney and press agent...