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Word: ile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last March the S. S. Ile de France brought into the U. S. a French girl who spoke no English. Her name was Lily Pons but it mattered to no one. She went to bed for eight days to recover from seasickness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Excitement at the Met | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...Also aboard the S. S. Ile de France" was the way most Manhattan newspapers referred last week to Dr. Earle Brownell Babcock, associate director of the European centre of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Cinemactor Charles ("Buddy") Rogers. A chocolate-brown third class passenger eclipsed in news value the entire first and second class. As he stepped ashore, "The Black Eagle of Harlem," Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "The Negro Lindbergh," faced batteries of press cameras, eloquently told his tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: French Influence | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...York received a check for $213,286, signed by Mrs. Robert L. Dodge, president of Harriet Hubbard Ayer Inc. (cosmetics). Mrs. Dodge was in bed with nervous breakdown. Inspectors who pawed the trunkfuls, cratefuls of lavish riches brought in by Mr. & Mrs. Dodge last month on the S. S. Ile de France are still marveling. A panorama of silks, satins, furs was there, and a rajah-worthy collection of diamond jewelry. Scant room remained that day on the pier for the effects of any other traveler whose last initial was D. Yet Mrs. Dodge had declared only $17,000 worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: New High | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...copie d'anden. Architects and artists must some time realize the value of their aboriginal art, native flower of the American continent, and the only one which was created for its crystal-like sky, just as Gothic art was the flower created for the damp and delicate scenery of Ile-de- France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. Etching v. British | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...roused the ire of U. S. blackamoors by alluding to their African ancestors and relatives as "the most patient of all animals" (TIME, Jan. 20). But Europeans will not be angry at what Africa's slim* Smuts said of Europe last week, just before he sailed on the Ile de France. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Nobody Expected It! | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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