Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every German knows that Captain Göring is an authentic ace hero of the Imperial air force, received Germany's grotesquely French-named Ordre Pour Le Mérite from Kaiser Wilhelm. After Allied airmen shot down the late great Baron von Richthofen he became commander of the Richthofen Escadrille...
French brandy distillers of whom the greatest is Cognac's dignified, art collecting Senator James ("***") Hennessy have hoped that on the repeal of the 18th Amendment they can drop their distasteful dealings with U. S. bootleggers. Last week their trade paper, Le Capital, urged them not to break off profitable clandestine relations in a hurry, warned that "an American tax of $6.40 per gallon on alcohol is provided and must become effective automatically when Prohibition is abolished. Furthermore, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act provides an additional tax of $5 per gallon on imported liquors. "There still are some days...
...held by Great Britain. Through that day and night and the next day the Joseph LeBrix, sturdy but slow, plodded across the Atlantic. Storms battered her. but visibility meant little to her pilots; they were flying by instrument and by radio. On the second evening they swooped low-over Le Bourget (nine minutes behind Lindbergh's time), dropped messages to their wives who. waving and shrieking hysterically, could plainly see their men's faces. Codos & Rossi" flew on through the night and the third day, across Central Europe, Greece and the Aegean Sea. They skirted the coast...
...Winnie Mae, dancing lightly up the runway at precisely midnight. It was more than the crowd could bear. Thousands and thousands of excited men & women climbed through, under and over the fences, surged toward the taxiing plane, behaved much as another historic crowd behaved one night in 1927 at Le Bourget...
...tradition the true London Cockney was "horn within sound of Bow bells" ringing from the tower of St. Mary-le-Bow Church in Cheapside. The church's name came from the "bows" (arches) on which its first building was raised above London's swamps. In the 19th Century...