Word: lions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paris was more acutely prostate gland conscious, last week, than at any time since Georges ("Le Tigre") Clemenceau had his removed over five years ago. It was now a case of dealing with the prostate gland of Raymond ("Le Lion") Poincare. At the time of his resignation as Prime Minister the illness of the "Lion of Lorraine" was described as "gastric fever'' (TIME, July 29). Last week, however, the precise facts were made known by Surgeons Marion and Cosset...
...Marion when the exploring was over. As the anesthetic wore off and M. Poincarè regained consciousness he appeared to think first and only of work. Certain reports had had to be left unfinished when illness obliged him to resign the Prime Ministry. As soon as ever he could Le Lion called for documents, ink and paper, set about completing the reports in his clear, precise, almost microscopic hand. So many huge baskets and bouquets arrived that when the invalid's room was full Mme. Poincare ordered the surplus sent, not without vanity, to deck the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...PEP?Lion Feuchtwanger?Viking...
...Deputies in an extremity of panic, the 65-year-old "Lion of Lorraine" was again called to form a government. It is astounding history that as his own Finance Minister, Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré restored the shaken credit of the French Treasury within six months, recouped the fall of the franc, finally stabilized it on a gold basis of $1 = 25.52 francs...
...contested debt settlement by which France agrees to pay the U. S. some $6,847,674,104.17 over 62 years. Presently the Senate approved the bill 300 to 292, and President Gaston Doumergue signed a decree enacting the debt settlement into law. Not until then did the stern old "Lion of Lorraine" feel free to dash upon paper the final resignation he has so long wanted to sign...