Word: henry
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sorcery. . . . When the birds passed over our homes at Bordeaux (500 miles away) they caused to grow poisonous mushrooms of lascivious shape and noxious odor, which gave us shameful diseases in various forms." The Abbé des Noyers boomed: "That is a frightful lie!" The other male defendant, one Henri Froger, was called: "The Abbé afflicted me likewise with shameful diseases. . . . We did not mean to kill him but only to defend our Sainted Mother Marie, whose statue of the Blessed Virgin now weeps* night and day. . . . We await such punishment as may be meted...
...Government, theoretically, without a majority. The Liberals, on the other hand, put on a bold and blustering front, intended to give the impression that they were sure of being supported by the 27 minority party members: 24 Progressives, 2 Laborites, and 1 Independent, that fire-eating gaffer, the Hon. Henri Bourassa of Quebec, now again returned to Parliament after an absence of 19 years. The situation was rendered grotesque by the fact that the "freak election" threw Premier King out of his own seat in Parliament and reduced him to sitting in the "Visitors' Gallery...
Just 100 years ago a babe with an enormous head and wide, staring eyes was born at the Chateau de Blowitz, near Pilsen, Bohemia. Half a century later one Henri Stephan de Blowitz, jack of all trades, paunchy ne'er-do-well, sought the Paris office of the famed London Times and audaciously asked for a job, although he admitted that he had never written a line of news in all his wastrel life...
...year term of President Dr. Jean M. Musy of the Swiss Confederation will expire. Last week the Swiss Federal Assembly, the Bundes-Versammlung, at Bern, chose as his successor according to custom the Vice President, M. Henri Haeberlin, famed Swiss barrister, Minister of Justice for the past year and sometime Premier...
Despatches at length announced the long expected appointment of Senator Victor Henry Bérenger to succeed Ambassador Nosky Georges Henri Emile Daeschner at Washington. Observers recalled that Senator Bérenger is Reporter General of the Budget to the Senate; that he came to the U. S. as second ranking member of M. Caillaux's ill fated debt mission (TIME, Oct. 5, Oct. 12) and that he is almost as widely known as a financial expert as Finance Minister Loucheur...