Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Will you do as I ask?" cried Republican Doumergue at last. Fascist de la Roque drew himself up and saluted the little man in civilian grey. "Oui, monsieur le President," he said. "To you the 'Cross of Fire' can only answer...
...booklet of Harvard history has an introduction by President Conant, and includes articles on all aspects of Harvard life by such notables as Professor Morison, Dean Hanford, and William J. Bingham '16. Director of Athletics. Perhaps most interesting of the lot is a re-printed essay by the late Le Baron R. Briggs '75, entitled "Harvard and the Individual." This was first published in the Boston Transcript in 1903, but its subject is one that is as vital today as, when it first appeared. There is also an interesting article on "Habits, Customs, and Manners at Harvard," by William...
...More to Brookish people's point is the fact that M. le Baron Fouquier has under compilation an exhaustive Wine Gotha or Who's Who among French vintages. Next year the Academic des Oenophiles will publish this Wine Gotha with its august imprimatur. Last week their president dictated a skeleton summary of French "good years," emphasizing that they apply only to the grand vin or superior grades of wine, particularly those bottled at the chateau. Good years, with the best in italics...
Such a list, valuable for general guidance, is of course only the groundwork of the Wine Gotha in which each subtle characteristic of each vintage will be described. Thus M. le Baron will write in part about the Bordeaux of 1916: "Good, complete without defects; will take a long time to become delicate but should become so. Very interesting to keep in stock...
...once refused 10,000 francs for some pictures, asked the buyer to give Millet's widow a 10-year 1,000-franc annuity instead. Dealers took advantage of his sliding scale of prices whereby he charged the rich much, the poor little. Paris knew him and loved him as le bonhomme Corot, a brawny celibate who in his youth could and did knock a peasant down with his fist...