Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First French Films of the season, "Le Barbier de Seville" and "Les Necos de Figaro", will flash on the screen at the Geographical Institute in four performances on Thursday and on Friday...
...cheers greeted a resounding slap at Premier Blum by famed old Senator Joseph Caillaux, many times Finance Minister. "It is, as you say, the duty of every Government to hear both the employers' and the workers' sides," roared M. Caillaux at M. Blum, "but you Monsieur le Président du Conseil, have shown preference for the predominance of a class -the proletariat-which has the right to our solicitude but which is not the only class in the country...
Coach Henry Lamar has announced that his starting line-up will be Maguire, le., Downing, it., Fehr, lg., Bird, c., Wood, rg., Healy, rt., Kelly, re., Hoye, q., Moore, rh., Curtis, lh., Bailey...
...French Administrator Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, laid out the site of New Orleans "in the form of a parallelogram, 4,000 feet long by 1,800 feet deep" and set a crew of convicts to work building the city. The area he marked off now constitutes the Vieux Carré, the old French Quarter of New Orleans, some 165 acres of picturesque wickedness, romantic associations, narrow streets and old Spanish dwellings, bounded by the Mississippi River, and Canal, Esplanade and Rampart Streets. It has been successively favored as a home for convicts, aristocrats, thieves and prostitutes, Italian...
...James Le B. Boyle II, 1936, in "Miseries and Vanities" winks and blinks and nods at several aspects of Harvard Society. He smiles at Mr. Schlesinger's rally for democracy, but too often does he bemuse when he means to be gay. He has a gift for phrase; and, when under control, he communicates his point, quote: "If only all students were 'great men', all would be well. But alas, many are not, and in them indifference is no true neutral, philosophical calm, no objective judgment, but rather a petty reserve which too often excludes its possessor from lively interests...