Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Profiting by the first few days of clear weather last week, he launched an attack upon the French emplacements south of the Riff in the valley of Oued Sabel. Three villages of tribes that had deserted to the French were burned, and numerous captured Frenchmen were castrated, as is the almost invariable custom of the savage Riffians...
...Doumergue, Herriot, Doumer, Briand?what office did each of these Frenchmen hold before the fall of the Briand Government last week...
...returning the champion's perfect lobs, the champion's fierce drives, the champion's terrific smashes and cannonball serves with incredible accuracy and pace. The first set went to deuce, dragged on and on. The gallery smiled. Tilden knew what he was doing. He knew that Frenchmen, because of their way of living, have little stamina. He was tiring Borotra out. But strangely enough-after Borotra had won the first set 13-11-it was Tilden's great shoulders that drooped, his feet that dragged, his shots that sidled into the net. Borotra...
...Income Tax Publicity. The Socialists demanded that article 58, making it obligatory for Frenchmen to declare the amount of their incomes to the tax collector, should be debated first...
...objects are not segregated in race divisions but hung together in a harmonious whole to carry out "the idea of international sympathy." There were studies of a cow, a cat, a goose, and a donkey by Jeanne Poupelet; compositions by such Frenchmen as Derain, Andre, Rouault, Aristide Maillol; by Augustus John and Jacob Epstein; by George Luks, Jo Davidson, Childe Hassam, Gertrude Whitney and Robert W. Chanler. The metropolitan critics, loyal patriots all, generously discussed the merits of the U. S. paintings: "Jazz," an experiment in abstract form by Man-Ray, an American living in Paris; a picture by Edward...