Word: institute
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French Academy-the 40 most learned men in France who meet in L'Institut de France and guard the purity of the French language with the vigilance of a duenna-decreed that the word "cocktail" has no place on the tongue of the Frenchman. Not even was coquetcle, a substitute compromise, allowed. The word is outlawed. Georges Clemenceau, "The Tiger," was interviewed in Vendee. He stood under an oak and said: "This is my old friend. A little older than I. It has lived 2,000 years...
...devoted much time to chemical research, but is better known for developing wireless telegraphy in the French Navy and for inventing undersea wireless to submarines. He is also interested in the notorious radio, and, as the despatch said, "radio enthusiasts now have a young and active representative in the Institut de France...
...latest wearer of the green uniform of the Academie des Beaux Arts, one of the five subdivisions of the ancient Institut de France, is J. L. Forain, famous cartoonist of Le Figaro. He was a pupil of Honore Daumier, greatest of all users of the satiric brush of the political cartoonist. Daumier was a great artist from any point of view. Forain has never equalled him, but his position is very important, not only in journalism, but in " straight" etching and painting as well...
...Election to the Institut will add nothing to the fame of J. L. Forain," says one Paris paper, which adds that " he owes almost nothing to the Ecole des Beaux Arts, child of the Institut...
...following educational centres will offer special summer courses and organize special summer courses and organize special tutorial classes for Americans: Universities of Besancon, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Nancy, Paris, Strasbourg, and Toulouse (summer courses at Bagneres de Bigorre), and the Institut d'Etudes francaises de Touraine et Tours...