Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days of moping, pallid Louis IX, "Saint Louis" (1226-70), Frenchmen dealt in a gold coin called the ecu or "crown." Last week M. le Professeur Charles Gide of the College de France proposed that a new ecu be struck with, the value of one U. S. dollar and that the present depreciated franc (4?) be scrapped...
Last week's race was won by Freddie Spencer & Charlie Winter. U. S. riders, tying with Faudet & Marcillac, Frenchmen, but pocketing the prize by virtue of a higher point total for sprints throughout the week...
...What would Haitians think of these faces?" wondered strollers through the Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan, last week. At them leered, from canvas, black faces-the faces of Negro Frenchmen, Negro Britishers, Negro Jews. The faces-explained a leaflet signed by famed Explorer William Beebe-were part of an artistic haul made by three painters who accompanied him to Haiti on the tenth expedition of the New York Zoological Society. "Never, I believe," wrote Explorer Beebe. "has any one country been so vividly presented in crayon, water color...
...Story: Certain Manhattan dry-goods stores have copied the notion, originated by Frenchmen, of colored bedclothes. They are a success. Distinctions of taste have crept into the choice of bed-linen. For small babies, pink or tea-colored sheets are recommended. For men of fashion, blue sheets are most suitable. Red-haired brides may have scarlet or green linen laid upon their couches. For oldsters a black sheet is in the best taste. Now, at Wm. Coulson & Sons, Jas. McCutcheon & Co., Mosse Inc. (in Manhattan), those who so desire may buy sheets in pastel shades as well as more solid...
...Albert Champion, 49. He had made more spark plugs (the A-C brand) than had any other man. Despatches from Paris, where he had died, gave no cause for death. But he had lived hard, incessantly driving himself at his work. Born in France, he made himself what Frenchmen call "typical" U. S. businessman, always under nervous tension. When he played, he played hard. He was married...