Word: ile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again every few days since President Roosevelt took office. Such fares are based on dollar prices which have not been changed as the dollar has been debased in the international market. Thus a Frenchman could buy for only 3,447 francs last week a First Class passage on the Ile de France which would have cost him last year 5,436 francs...
...ile have one that's pretty her cheeks of scarlet...
...them. He it was who rushed to completion in record time the great Rex and Conte di Savoia at a period when Britain's Cunard Line was forced to abandon work on its 73,000-ton liner and the French Line dallied with its new super-Ile de France. Last year genial Count Ciano paid out 275,000,000 lire of Il Duce's revenues in ship subsidies. Since the S. S. Savannah first ploughed her way across the North Atlantic in 26 days in 1819, leading maritime nations have fought steadily for the speed honors...
...ADMITTANCE signs plastered the doors of a room on S. S. Ile de France in mid-Atlantic. Behind the doors were famed Conductor Arturo Toscanini and Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 15. Every day while Yehudi played, Toscanini turned pages. One evening Conductor Toscanini presented Yehudi in the first-class salon as sole performer in the ship's concert. The boy had consented to play on condition that everyone aboard be permitted to attend. Proceeds: 40,000 francs...
...deals at lunch, Statesman Stimson always hires at every big conference which he attends the most palatial estate which can possibly be hired, preferably a mansion some miles out of town like his own "Woodley" in Washington. Last week, having taken Mrs. Stimson to Europe on the svelte, palatial Ile de France, and brought her to Paris on a private railway car, he set her up three miles from Geneva as the Chatelaine of the Chateau de Bessinge...