Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfonse and Gaston," famed comic-strip Frenchmen in comical silk hats, came irresistibly to mind, last week as the Chamber debated with classic frenzy the fiscal policy to be pursued by France. Finance Minister Caillaux, a bald and dapper "Gaston," outlined with deadly earnestness in a high pitched squeaky voice the keynotes of his plan to save the franc...
...Caillaux (his second wife) shot and killed Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro. It was established that she acted to protect herself and her husband from the publication by Le Figaro of documents tending to demonstrate their mutual moral turpitude at an earlier period and his current civil dishonesty. Though infuriated mobs attempted to lynch them both in the streets, Mme. Caillaux escaped conviction. So abysmal was their disgrace that his few remaining influential friends rushed him out of France on a flimsily concocted "mission" to South America...
...method of honoring Christ was devised at Lille, France. Bishop Gaston de Segur inspired his people to a public demonstration of their faith. This first public celebration was only local with relatively few adherents. But even so, the open air parading of the Host was dramatic. The idea spread, was dramatized the next year at Avignon, France. In 1888 the VI Eucharistic Congress met at Paris and centred its pomp and circumstance about the Church of the Sacred Heart,* whence one overlooks all of grey Paris and beyond towards Chartres. Many a great city has seen these congresses ? Antwerp...
Emissaries from the governments headed by Calvin Coolidge, George V, Gaston Doumergue, Paul von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg and many another, sought last week the capital of Persia, Teheran, a city located some 60 miles inland from the southern tip of the Caspian...
...Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations convened under the presidency of the Marquis Alberto Theodori and received the report of France touching her administration of the mandated territories of Syria and Libya. Count Robert de Caix, Secretary-General of the French High Commission in Syria, and Count Gaston Clauzel, Director of the French Service of the League of Nations, did their best to explain why the French bombarded Damascus (TIME, Nov. 9). The session was naturally behind closed doors, but attentive listeners heard enough to evolve the catch phrase: "For the first time in history a Great Colonial...