Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This distance is 2,100 nautical miles. When the ships had accomplished it (as there seemed every likelihood of their doing, what the guard ships, the good weather) they would have beaten the non-stop flight record established last month by the Frenchmen, Arrachard and Le Caitre. In Honolulu, crowds gathered to watch a tiny plane crawl across a bulletin board, nearer, nearer. When it arrived there would be a holiday...
French forces in Morocco were said to rival kaleidoscopes in the diversity of their hues, varying from fairest white to darkest black. White Frenchmen from the North and olive Frenchmen from the South fight shoulder to shoulder with coffee, chocolate and black Annamites, Senegalese, Hindus, Algerians, Tunisians, and, as despatch most aptly put it "the mixed grill of the Foreign Legion...
...Wimbledon. On a smooth lawn marked with white lines, two Frenchmen were indulging in an active tennis match. One of them bounded about at the net, volleying everything he could; the other played a backcourt game, driving deeply and accurately. His brow was furrowed with concentration; he was trying very hard to win. His rival at the net was more debonair; when a neat lob passed him, he kissed his fingers to it; occasionally he called out, "Bravo, René." He, Jean Borotra, was playing against René Lacoste, conquerer of J. O. Anderson, for the championship of England...
...doubles title was fought for by two Frenchmen, two Americans. The Frenchmen won. They were Lacoste and Borotra. The Americans were Roy Casey of San Francisco and tall John Hennessey of Indianapolis. All were exhausted; the score...
...person as regards his point of view as when he left it. This is due, of course, to the fact that there are so many foreigners at these large places. At the Sorbonne in Paris, for instance, one finds that the percentage of aliens is far greater than of Frenchmen and consequently those who attend might last as well have stayed at home and gone to their own local or state college...