Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealth with a chateau in southern France. When President Gaston Doumergue retired his popularity remained such as utterly to eclipse his two successors. There was no one else whom sad-eyed, colorless President Albert Lebrun could call to the Premiership in the bloody days of last winter when le peuple seemed rising against a Government hopelessly corrupt. Last week beloved Gaston Doumergue went to the microphone and gave an accounting of his stewardship as Premier in the last six fateful months...
...black and silver sash from which hung a red leather holster and a golden dirk of honor. From a shoulder strap to the top button of his tunic ran a golden cord. A black pearl pin ornamented his cravat. On his left breast blazed decorations headed by the Pour le Merite order. The Premier stood out from the brown background of his followers like a silver swan. His smile glittered like gold...
...into early music. When he gave his first concert 45 years ago the oldest composition Antiquarian Dolmetsch played dated from the 17th Century. Believing that the past could offer more pungent novelties he studied tirelessly, rediscovered the formal counterpoint and chromatic modulations of the Renaissance. Deciphering manuscripts of Perotin le Grand (circa 1200) revealed a forgotten treasure of intricately constructed works. Moroccan musicians in 1929 taught Dolmetsch the secrets of traditional Andalusian music which influenced 11th and 12th Century European composers...
...punished, irrespective of whether the bullets strike the guilty or the innocent!" Fearful that some kind of European alliance to attack the Reich may now be forming, Vice Leader Hess began to switch his talk from German to French. "Malheur pour nous! Malheur pour vous! Et malheur pour tout le monde!" puzzled Germans heard him shout. "An evil day for us! For you! And for all the world...
...lissier, Lapébie and Speicher are sprint specialists. Best climber in the race is Vicente Treuba, "Le Roi des Montagnes,'' a minuscule Spaniard who propels his 110-lb. body up the steepest slopes without leaving the saddle...