Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Americans know that Thomas Alva Edison invented the "Kinetoscope"; and Frenchmen know that Louis Lumière invented the "Cinematograph." Experts still wrangle over which of these inventions was the more basic; but grizzled Louis Lumière has long since ceased to care. Interviewed last week in Paris he barely condescended to observe: "My. brother Auguste and I looked upon our invention as a novelty, capable of offering distraction for a few moments only. . . . The Americans have taken a toy and made it into a trade. . . . Primarily I am a chemist. I have little or no time...
...designing strangers, Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, had not reckoned on the many patriotic Dutchmen, particularly the cosmopolite Deterding. He sped over from London. When the bidding began the potency of Dutch oil, of Dutch nurture, became plain. The Letter by Gerard Terboch stood on the easel, a slight canvas in which a pretty maiden is seen writing a billet-doux. There was a fusillade of bidding. Sir Henri pounced on the foreigners, kept raising the bid "dix mille guilders" at a leap. He triumphed at $127,600. It all happened again with Jacob Ochtervelt's The Oyster Eaters. For this...
...champiawn. . . ." A little fellow to be proclaimed in so huge a voice, he bowed gaily to the audience and hopped out of the ring, the world's featherweight champion. His name was Andre Routis; he had just completed 15 rounds of infighting against spry Tony Canzoneri. Frenchmen fight with their feet, it is said; but Routis had held his elbows pointed in front of him and his gloves near his ears as he moved in to claw Canzoneri's belly. Canzoneri, after winning the first rounds, had been gradually gutted in this routisserie; a game fighter...
...Finance Minister Antonio Mosconi (successor to the great Count Volpi who has been "rotated") countenanced release of the following comparative statistics: "Whereas U. S. citizens are taxed 13.3 per cent of their earnings. Englishmen 27.3 per cent and Frenchmen 29.2 per cent, the Italian people are taxed 38.1 of their earnings?or almost three times as much as U. S. citizens...
...news syndicate: "I hope to see the [national doubles] title stay here in our country, but I fear that it will go 'down under.' " Racqueteer-Writer Tilden was reporting the straight set victory of George M. Lott Jr. & John F. Hennessey, U. S. netsters, over Frenchmen Henri Cochet & Jacques Brugnon, in the semi-final round. The following day Lott & Hennessey came out on the courts of the Longwood Cricket Club, Chestnut Hill, Mass., defeated the Australian team, Gerald L. Patterson & John B. Hawkes, by the identical score of the victory over the French...