Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contemporaries called "cameos." Among the Franklin friends whose likenesses were thus ceramically preserved were Josiah Wedgwood himself, William Penn, William Pitt, Sir Jeffrey Amherst, Erasmus Darwin (Charles's grandfather), Charles James Fox, David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dr. Samuel Johnson, George Washington, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Jean François Marie Arouet (Voltaire) and Catherine II of Russia...
...Jean Arthur does a good job as the unsuspected adder in Gary's bosom, who exposes him to the merciless Manhattan derision. It is only when Jean breaks out in court with her self-effacing apologies that Gary lets himself fly into his grand flaying splurge...
...Deal. French foreign trade and, politically more important, French tourist trade have suffered woefully from devotion to gold. Having taken a 79% devaluation in 1928 and endured the preceding inflation, the French people, particularly its millions of small investors, hate & fear the idea of currency tampering. Lately, however, Jean Frenchman has begun to feel the terrible grind of deflation, and a shot in the economic arm, if reasonably successful, might be forgotten as quickly as dollar devaluation was forgotten...
...FULL-SIZED NORMAL BABIES. SHE GAVE BIRTH TO THEM IN ONE DAY SEVEN MONTHS AGO." The reason this amazing news had been so long reaching the world, explained the Referee, was that "there is no cable line in the little village. . . . There are no telephones." Pictures of the sextuplets Jean-Pierre, Jean-Paul, Jean-Marc, Jean-Luc, Jean-Marie and Jean-Claude Vicogne were published to clinch the yarn's authenticity...
...devoted a full page to an account of the sextuplets' fabulous birth, pictured the six bouncing boys, told how Nestlé's milk had made them grow. When the last child was born, gay Mme Vicogne was reported to have said: "Let's call him 'Jean-Ai-Assez.' [I've had enough]." This number of Vu also offered a page of photographs of some extraordinary animals. There was a cow-pigeon, a sheep-duck, a zebra headed like a rhinoceros, a monstrous swan wattled like a rooster. "Nature is an inexhaustible mystery," reflected...