Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courtyard of the grey Palais de 1'Elysée shuffled the famed Garde Républicaine band; within the huge pile fidgeted Gaston Doumergue, Protestant President of France, Aristide Briand, anticlerical Premier, lesser officials. They were trapped out in state uniforms, ribbons across chests, decorations pendent. They spoke little. Premier Briand was thinking of his successful 1905 fight to oust the Church from its French properties, of his long struggle to keep separate Church and State in France. President Doumergue thought of his Huguenot ancestors buried in Provence. Here he was, a Protestant, about to lend his office...
...attempt to duplicate the success of The Hunchback of Notre Dame with another picture of Lon Chaney and Paris. They built the imposing facade of the Paris Opera House and constructed on various sets a series of ingenious interiors and dungeons. They took their story from the novel of Gaston Leroux and depended on horror chiefly for their entertainment. Though Mr. Chaney wears a more grotesque make-up than ever, the film play seems only pretty good...
President Gaston Doumergue left Paris for Cherbourg, where he reviewed "what of our fleet is left to us." Speaking on board the cruiser Paris at a luncheon of honor, he stressed the imperious necessity of a well-equipped navy for the protection of France and her vast overseas empire...
...Caillaux shot M. Gaston Calmette, editor of the Figaro, in his office for attacking her husband in his newspaper. Despite the fact that premeditated murder seemed established, the court before which she was tried acquitted her on the grounds that Calmette would not have died had he received proper medical attention...
Died. Mrs. Henrietta Page Gaston, 93, mother of Lucy Page Gaston, famed anti-cigaret leader; in Evanston, Ill., eleven months after the death of her daughter...