Word: les
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having let the platinum blonde dye grow out of her brown hair. Cinemactress Jean Harlow declared that henceforth she will play only sedate rôles...
...city of Elbeuf, son of a family of textile manufacturers. His father compelled him to manage the family mills despite his early literary ambitions, his youthful mastery of English, his desire to fit into pre-War literary circles in Paris. Assigned to British Headquarters during the War, he wrote Les Silences du Colonel Bramble in 1918, found that his publisher did not believe a novel about the English would sell. More than 75.000 copies of the book were sold, and after a similar success with Ariel, his biography of Shelley, Maurois became recognized as an interpreter of the English...
...February 1915, reports Crapottillot, France's 336th infantry regiment fought hard at Perthes-les-Hurlus. In March it was ordered into the front lines at Souain Mill. Three attempts to take a strong German position failed under withering machine gun fire, with heavy losses. The high command ordered the regiment's 21st company to attack again, at dawn on March 10. At the zero hour the supporting artillery, which had failed miserably in clearing a way through the barbed wire in No Man's Land, clumsily began to drop shells just in front of the 21st...
...lately suffering from injuries, and will probably begin the game. Still, the ability of Paul Pauk, former Worcester School player, Jack White, who has shone in many games in place of LeVan, and the fleet Jack Irwin make them all equally potential starters. In addition, Chick Kaufman, brother of Les Kaufman, who was a main cog in last year's backfield, will probably be a replacement at halfback owing to his punting prowess...
Wily Greek. League of Nations activity began to stir when British League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden motored from Geneva over to Aix-les-Bains in France for dinner with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. About 2 a. m. Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Dictator Mussolini's Chief Delegate to the League, also arrived at Aix-les-Bains and went to bed. At 9:30 next morning the hard, astute Fascist Baron breakfasted with comfortable, pipe-sucking Stanley Baldwin and they conferred for an hour before the minister wound up his holiday water-cure and returned to London...