Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact remains that Wagner's amours have only such significance as they have attained in their mutation into art. Louis Barthou's book competently threads together previously known facts, describes with Gallic wit and speed encounters of that nature which Frenchmen, both in funny papers and reality, enjoy with special gusto. But since it tells little that is new and only brushes over the old, it is to be regarded more as a series of entertaining anecdotes than as a consequential item in the lists of Wagnerian biography...
...Frenchmen wondered last week, if the National Convention of the American Legion, scheduled at Paris, September 19 to 24, 1927, would turn out to be like this. Legion officers scouted the idea, pointed out that wives, children, fathers, mothers and other relatives of Legionnaires will accompany them with ballasting effect. The 30,000 beds have been contracted for at prices ranging from $1.50 to $7.00 per night, and the steamer passage over will be made in orderly fashion on chartered ships assigned to various states. For example, Legionnaires from Iowa will sail on the Megantic. Meals in Paris, however, will...
...Germany, not the Emperor, desired or brought about the War, but Frenchmen's desire for revenge, Russia's passion for power and England's mercantile selfishness. I recommend to you the books of Professor Barnes of Northampton, Mass., the speeches of La-Follette, of Senator Owen and many others...
Abroad, five bands of Frenchmen were thus stimulated, the most notable being headed by Ace Coli and Ace Nungesser. But shortage of capital hindered the French preparations...
...London last week, H. Gordon Self ridge, Anglicized-American whose daughters have married Frenchmen, owner of the great British department stores (Selfridge & Co., Ltd. and its branches in the provinces) was busily negotiating for control of a rival department store?Whiteley...