Word: les
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour at a roulette wheel in the Casino at Juan-les-Pins, France. Novelist E. Phillips Oppenheim won 200,000 francs ($13,180). Said Gambler Oppenheim: "A very amusing pastime...
...legs, strong lungs and a fondness for an energetic vacation at someone else's expense. Entrants must all have proved their mettle in other major contests. The 1934 field is composed of five national teams-France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Spain-Switzerland - of eight men each, and 20 independents (les isoles). Since the war Belgians have won the race six times, Frenchmen five times, an Italian twice, a Luxembourger twice...
When hard, chic women are to be judged according to the scantiness of their pajamas or the tint to which they have burned their skins at Deauville or Juan-les-Pins, soft, squashy, exquisite Baron Maurice de Rothschild is generally on hand to pass on their face and form. The women call him "Momo" and his pajamas are a sight to rival theirs. In France he used to be regularly elected Deputy because he bought his rural constituents so many free drinks and livestock. That scandal won him the distinction of being one of the few French Deputies ever unseated...
...Smuts declared: ''Secession from the Empire is as dead as a dodo." ¶ In Britain, George and Mary visited a round of airports, luckily missing one air pageant in which two aviators were killed. ¶ In Western Canada, picnicking citizens complained about the drought. ¶ In Aix-les-Bains, the Viceroy of India, Lord Willingdon, away from his post on leave, laid a wreath on a French cenotaph...
...Albert's death were such as to breed ugly stories. Albert left his footman at 2 p. m. saying he would return in an hour. When he failed to return after several hours, the frightened footman did not think to step into a telephone booth at nearby Marche-les- Dames. Instead, with an impulse toward secrecy, he drove a long way to the chateau of Count Anton de Wiart, and from there telephoned the royal palace at Brussels. The two court officials who got the message drove out to Marche-les-Dames to search for the King...