Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from London came Richard Oswald, a merchant whom Shelbourne considered sufficiently canny to deal successfully with the Yankees. The stage was set for great deeds. For reasons personal or traditional the gulf between Dr. Franklin, Mr. Adams, and Mr. Jay was equal to that between Jay the Huguenot and le Comte de Vergennes, French foreign minister, or between de Vergennes and Charles James Fox. To quote an historian, "Adams thought Franklin was an atheist of no morality, and Franklin thought that Adams was a madman who was all the more dangerous as he was honest...
...Americans of the mysterious visit of a French emissary to London. "The French have betrayed their word," they whispered slyly, "They will get a separate peace, and you will get nothing." Dr. Franklin stroked his lace frill with bejeweled chubby fingers and pondered the possibilities of a separate peace. Le Comte de Vergennes toyed with the silver inkpot on his satinwood desk, and tried to fathom the strange actions of his friends the Americans. Even Dr. Franklin received him a bit stiffly, a bit coldly...
Queenie Smith and Otis Skinner in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"--it doesn't sound right. However, this play is scheduled to open Monday, October ninth, at the Colonial. Eva Le Gallienne's company comes on the sixteenth of October to the same theatre to present "Romeo and Juliet"; it will give a single benefit performance of "Alice in Wonderland," which is worth seeing. So popular was it in New York last season that it was moved to Broadway from the 14th Street Theatre...
...first team as they lined up yesterday is as follows: Nicholas Filed man, Le; Edward R. Simmons, l.f; Charles W. Kessler l.g., Chester H. Brown, c, William R. Lane r.g; Beury M. Adlis, r.f; Gaffney, l.e.; Richard R. Pedrick q.b.; George S. Ford l.h.b.; Leo A. Ecker, r.h.b.; Thomas H. Riledean...
Since everyone knows that lottery methods cannot fill the bucket of France's deficit, crucial interest began to focus on the reassembling of the Chamber of Deputies next month. Writing in Le Capital last week former Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin, no friend of his successor M. Bonnet, submitted a brutal analysis of the budget situation, proved that the Chamber can restore stability, but only by wholesale cuts in veterans' pensions and civil servants' salaries, by a drastic drive against chronic French income tax frauds, and by imposing new taxes so crushing that the Chamber seemed likely...