Word: lasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Please put no words into my mouth," begged Prime Minister Andre Tardieu, onetime political lieutenant of Clemenceau, as he issued from a last homage to his chief at 3 a. m. "All that I have to say is that in Death he lies magnificent and calm...
...West Twelfth Street (the dingy brick building still stands) she bore him the present Mme. Jacquemaire. Then he took her back to Paris?on the dread eve of 1870?where she bore him Michael and "Le Petit Pierre," now a businessman in Lima, Peru, where he raged last week at the slowness with which bulletins trickled in about his father...
Wrecker of Cabinets. The bitterest years fast followed the happiest. Returning to Paris in the last days of fat Napoleon Ill's tottering empire, the Young Tiger was just in time to gnash impotent jaws as Bismarck's Prussians conquered with "blood and iron" at Sedan, then tramped on to Paris. The pomp, the swagger, the burning shame lit a blaze of hate in Clemenceau which nothing ever quenched. Bismarck, Wilhelm II, Stresemann?they were all anathema. "Stresemann was Bismarck's best pupil," growled the Tiger recently. "He has gotten everything for his country, while on our side everything...
...caption "J'Accuse!" above the most potent of many articles by Emile Zola which eventually freed Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus from "Devil Island," where an anti-Semite French government had sent him to rot. The fight to free Dreyfus took six of Clemenceau's and Zola's best years. Last week the grateful captain stumped around to sign M. Clemenceau's visitors book, just before...
Unfair of Foch. It was the ghost of Foch which kept Clemenceau writing night and day until he died, perhaps hastened his death. Journalist Raymond Recouly published last year Le Memorial de Foch, flaying Clemenceau's handling of the peace conference in words allegedly quoted from Foch. In almost a paroxysm of rage, Le Tigre began to write his reply, had it complete last week except for a few pages of revision. "It is unfair of Foch!" stormed Clemenceau again and again in the last few weeks. "He is no longer here to receive my reply! . . . I am finishing...