Word: germains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...makes images of the War in the minds of his characters, Annette, Sylvie, Marc, Germain. "War could not frighten Annette. 'Everything is war,' she thought, 'war under a mask ... I am not afraid to meet you face to face.'" She finds in 1914 that the crisis she must meet is complicated by the fact that Marc, her illegitimate son, is old enough not to feel the need for maternal intimacy. She goes away from Paris to teach in a country academy, leaving Marc in the city with her sister, Sylvie. She becomes involved in a friendship...
...inventors); to Henry J. Haskell, 52, associate editor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star; in Oberlin, Ohio. Married. Audrey Emery, "Diana of Cincinnati,"* daughter of the late John J. Emery; to Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch of Russia; at Biarritz, France. By the marriage she becomes Princess Anna Ilyinska, cousin-germain to Queen Marie of Rumania. Married. Patricia Andrews Herron, niece of Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who gave the bride away; to one Joseph Lancaster Brent; in Washington...
Immediately following the first-year event. William Germain Dooley of Boston, the recent record-breaker, was elected captain of the 1930 harriers. Dooley prepared at Huntington School where he ran the mile and the half mile and captained two winning relay teams at the Pennsylvania Interscholastic meets...
Professor Masaryk remembers well that it was onetime Professor Wilson who, as President of the U. S., furthered the aspirations of Czechs and Slovaks at the peace conference, and secured recognition of the new state of Czechoslovakia by the Allies in the Treaty of St. Germain (Sept...
...Hilaire Germain Edgard Degas, long years ago, standing in front of one of Mary Cassatt's paintings, turned with his slow, twisting smile to a companion. The remark was perhaps the highest compliment she everreceived-more satisfactory even than the one the Luxembourg paid her when it bought one of her paintings on behalf of the citizens of France. Degas, that superlative draughtsman, who alone of all painters has immortalized the beauty of awkwardness, knew what he was talking about. Miss Cassatt could draw. At that time she had not come under Degas' influence but had caught...