Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to the Royal Institute at Milan to study to be an engineer and "an expert businessman." One day, he heard that a Frenchman, Leon Delagrange, had made a six-minute airplane flight.* His dreams suddenly took shape-he would build ships of the air; he would learn to sail them...
Died. Baroness Nancy Fish Barnum Callius d'Arengian; onetime wife of Phineas Taylor Barnum, famed U. S. showman; in Paris. After Mr. Barnum's death in 1891 she married Demetrius Callius Bey, Greek, and after his death-D'Alexandry d'Arengian, Frenchman...
...Germans think of me as a kind of monomaniac, as a hairy personification of our poor Alsace-Lorraine, incapable of nourishing other designs than those of vengeance." Thus spoke Raymond Poincaré last week, and spoke the exact truth. Germans do hate and fear him more than any other Frenchman-for it was he who sent French and Belgian troops to occupy the Ruhr in 1924. Moreover he is the strongest statesman in Europe now opposing the famed "Locarno spirit," a conception which would admit Germany fully and freely to the comradeship of nations. His speech last week...
...Russian, but people say: 'Why don't you naturalize out?' Why, because I am Russian. It is my country. We have many troubles, but it is my country. If they put me out, what will I do? I cannot imagine myself 'Englishman or Frenchman or American, because I am Russian." "I think I do not do a crime in my conscience, in my soul I know I do not do a crime. But I am distressed...
...this film, is depicted wooing the ladies, avoiding the creditors, insulting the Prince of Wales, acting Hamlet and Romeo so all the world wonders. Pictures of old Drury Lane Theatre lend a touch of authentic local color. Actor Mosjoukine, a Russian, under direction of Albert St. Louis, a Frenchman, gives an intelligently humorous interpretation of the English hero...