Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Suicide ? It seemed so, but who could imagine a man like Raoul taking his own life. . . . Murder? That seemed more likely, said friends of his who, like most young Frenchmen, had read the tales of Edgar Allen Poe. But the police said no to both hypotheses. What had happened was quite simple, they said. Raoul La Chapelle had dressed for the feête, had climbed up on the stool to see himself full length in the glass. Standing so, he had taken hold of the grips, connected to elastic cords, on which he did his daily exercises...
...higher cost of francs, U. S. importers canceled large orders for French laces. Steel importers canceled so many orders that the Cartel d'Acier (French Steel Trust) cut production scales to 2,000 tons monthly from 10,000 tons. Similar curtailments in other lines threw some 30,000 Frenchmen out of work during the past month...
Side by side with this attack on the Conservative element, agitation developed last week to expel foreign workers from France and thus " leave more work for Frenchmen. Fulminating upon this point the potent French League of the Rights of Man, a radical organization, issued a manifesto last week...
...gold value since November. Premier Poincaré thereupon decided to peg the franc against further rise or decline. By his order the Bank France announced that until further notice it would buy or sell any number of francs at 25 to the dollar. Instantly speculation in the franc ceased. Frenchmen sighed with relief for a further rapid rise would have raised the gold price of French goods so much that French exporters would have been ruined...
Most of the best music has been composed in Europe. But the greatest virtuosos, composers, conductors, turn toward the U.S. for a living. They come, Italians, Germans, Frenchmen, Poles, with their Italian, German, French, Polish art. It has always been welcome. Yet to many Americans, a native pride has long cried out for musical interpretation of America by Americans. Last week, at the Chicago Auditorium, these people rejoiced. They heard a native two-act opera, sung in English, composed by an American, Charles Wakefield Cadman, written by an American, Nelle Richmond Eberhardt, conducted by an American, Henry G. Weber, staged...