Word: huguenots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
General Fechet is to the banner born. The fighting strain (French-Huguenot, not Irish) surges through Fechet blood. His uncle quit the U. S. Army after long service, irked with peace, and went to Egypt to fight. The nephew was elevated to the Air Service from the Cavalry where he won his spurs. Many a War and post-War flier was trained under his command at Scott, Carlstrom, Dorr and Kelly Fields. His brother officers still think he looks "like a Remington cavalryman." "Take a good look at that fighting jaw," say they...
Married. James Russell Lowell, great-grandson of Poet-Diplomat James Russell Lowell; third-cousin-once-removed of President A, Lawrence Lowell of Harvard and of the late Poetess Amy Lowell;* to Julia Brokaw, direct descendant of Bourgon Broucard,? French Huguenot exile, who sought refuge in America in 1675; in Manhattan. Headmaster the Rev. William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School, officiated...
...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 to the robing of a Catholic prelate. Yet his countrymen are mostly Catholics, although by no means altogether dutifully so, and it would be politic to ignore last spring's imbroglio with the Vatican...
...historic massacre of the Huguenots (a name given from about the middle of the 16th Century to the Protestants of France), so called because it began in Paris on St. Batholomew's Day, Aug. 24, 1572. It was planned by Catherine de' Medici, primarily as revenge upon Admiral Coligny, but later being broadened in scope so as to include the slaughter at one blow of all the Huguenot leaders, thus ruining the Protestant party in France. At length persuading the King that the massacre was a measure of public safety, she succeeded in wringing from him his consent...
...sought him out in the top floor of a gloomy dormitory where he was gayly pitching pennies of a Winter afternoon. Shortly after that, S. V. B. published his first book of poems. Since then he has published two others and three novels. Until his latest novel, Jean Huguenot, I had thought him more poet than novelist. In Jean, however, he has drawn a character of charm and power...