Word: henry
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pierre Paul Henri Gaston Doumergue (1924-to the present), 63, "first Protestant and lucky 13th President of France...
...Beau Geste was a superbly sanguinary book-and it was-this latest* is truly magnificent. The hero is familiar to Beau Geste readers as Major Henri de Beaujolais of the Spahis and the French intelligence service. But you have no idea of this man's training prowess and unblemished character until you read Beau Sabreur...
...Premier Henri Jaspar stood up, haggard and grave, before the Chamber last week. "You must help us!" he cried to the 78 Catholics, 78 Socialists and 23 Liberals whose nicely interbalanced votes have so often deadlocked the Chamber against itself...
Correspondents remembered to mention the men who competed in the tournament. Jean Borotra of France won the singles, sweeping past Howard Kinsey. Paired with Richards, Kinsey lost the doubles to Jacques Brugnon and Henri Coehet, champion of France, 5-7, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6. Richards played very badly. Both he and Kinsey showed a tendency, indeed, a habit, to serve double faults and to volley from the service line...
...Zarathustra," to announce the death of the gods, the birth of supermen and the doctrine, "live dangerously." He was last of the Romantics. And so to contemporary Europeans, who, while not Romantics, are expressing a fresh revolt against materialism as left by Spencer and his French equivalents, the Positivists. Henri Bergson (1859-) has lectured at the College de France since 1900. He is the exponent of "creative evolution," having tried to show that consciousness is (in principle) coextensive with life. He has argued that intellection is not the highest form of consciousness, since it is but a nebula surrounded...