Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They had come to bid farwell to M. le President Gaston Doumergue as he left Paris for Marseilles (see p. 26). They were MM. Raymond Poincaire, Paul Painleve, and Edouard Herriot, now respectively Premier, War Minister and Minister of Public Instruction. The hour was 10:27 a.m., and they knew that the President's special train would not pull out until 10:30. Three minutes remained to kiss M. le President Gaston Doumergue goodbye...
...Died. Gaston Leroux, famed writer of detective stories; at Nice, France. The Mystery of the Yellow Room and The Phantom of the Opera were cinematized. The Phantom featured Lon Chaney...
During the week M. le President Gaston Doumergue, beady-eyed, humorous, possessed of the most supple and successful fund of political tact in France?...
...Paris, one Gaston Orpholan, billiardist, climbed to the second platform of the Eiffel Tower and shouted at the city that his wife would not let him play billiards. Therefore he was going to jump to his death. For five hours policemen begged him not to do so; he demanded that his wife come. She did. Then he jumped...
Last week, Miss Gaston's major achievement began to be undone. The lower house of the Kansas legislature voted, 83 to 35, to repeal the anti-cigaret law. The State Senate is expected to follow suit; Governor Paulen say's he will sign the bill. Kansans had long been ashamed of this law. They could not enforce it; bootleggers simply sold cigarets for 25c instead of 15c; Missourians jested at their alleged smokeless neighbor, sent thousands of cigaret cartons across the border...