Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British, French and Belgian wounded under her care, she conspired with Prince Reginald de Croy to smuggle into Holland numerous Allied soldiers for whom he contrived to forge passports. Arrested by the German Military Police, she confessed to abetting the escape into Holland of some 175 Britons, Frenchmen and Belgians of military...
Physiologists convening in Stockholm all but forgot other topics in a furore created by Dr. Serge Voronoff, famed gland-grafter. Last fortnight, Dr. Voronoff told Frenchmen about his extra-heavy three-glanded Algerian rams (TIME, Aug. 9). To his Swedish hosts he revealed that he had grafted within Nora, a mature female chimpanzee, the sex organs of a human female. Then, with assistance from Dr. Elie Ivanoff of Moscow, he had artificially impregnated Nora with human sperms. She was to bear her baby in January and it would be, biologically, a human child. To date, she was progressing normally...
...power of almost every predominantly Catholic state. When Vittorio Emanuele II contracted the temporal sway of the Pope within the Holy See (1870) he but served to enhance the spiritual prestige of the Papacy. Despite the Kulturkampf the Catholic party is still one. of the most potent in Germany. Frenchmen have not so completely disestablished Catholicism as not to heed an occasional whisper from the Vatican. Who is Calles, what is Mexico that the immemorially potent Papacy should fear it may not triumph in the end? Centuries of Strife. During the four centuries of Catholic penetration into Mexico the Roman...
...corner of the Boulevard des Italiens and the Rue du Helder, six more U. S.-freighted charabancs were held up by a crowd of well-dressed Frenchmen-seemingly by no means roughs. Several policemen appeared, attempted to interfere, were restrained by the inceasing ugliness of the mob, advised "Les Amér- icains" (about half of these being English and German and less than one-quarter U. S. citizens) to climb from their busses and scuttle off. The advice was taken. No injuries...
Michael Arlen will have his name on two plays, written in collabora- tion. Edith Ellis has dramatized his The Cavalier of the Streets and Winchell Smith has helped Mr. Arlen on a comedy called What Fun Frenchmen Have...