Word: ile
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kellogg. He did not do so. Instead, Mr. Herrick made a gesture worthy of France and the U. S. He ordered his bags packed, took the so vital document into his personal care, and embarked on the maiden voyage of the just completed flagship of the French Line, the Ile de France (sixth largest ship-41,000 tons). That Mr. Herrick had previously planned to come home, anyway, did not alter the effectiveness of his beau geste...
...Gare du Lyons, Paris. In puffed a train. Out jumped a man both lean and spry. While porters panted, he sprinted with M. Rousseau for the latter's limousine, distanced newsgatherers, photographers. Then for a few days Secretary Mellon of the U. S. Treasury dwelt on the ancient Ile St. Louis, hard by Notre Dame, surrounded by the muddy Seine, ensconced at the venerable and opulent mansion of M. Rousseau whom the Secretary is said to address as "Teddy...
...were they that he would go to the Hotel Crillon and at once order "a New England boiled dinner" that two of the lesser journals reported he had done so. What did this unnatural-in-an-American conduct portend? Obviously a secret conference was to be held upon the Ile St. Louis. Cherchez le conference...
...vacation no person in the college, the Fire was past stopping Harvard before it was perceived. I hope the K - g will give something to repair the loss as he has never done anything for this College yet, . . . . . . and now partly to soften your grief and alleviate your sorrow, Ile tell you the proceeding of our worthy Court the next Day, the first vote that past was for rebuilding the College at the expense of the province Imediately, and two thousand lawful voted to begin with, and a sum to Mr. Hancock to repair his loss which with what...