Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...date of his operation neared, indomitable M. Poincare, although suffering considerable pain, insisted on getting up each morning, made a point of dressing himself unaided, even buttoned his small feet into the high, old fashioned shoes affected by many a French elder statesman. At his age?he will be 69 this month ?M. Poincare knew that there was nothing unwonted, nothing crucial about an inflammation of the gland he was about to lose. Not strictly speaking an organ of sex, as ignorants suppose, the prostate, nestling just beneath the bladder, supplies certain useful but not vital secretions, is observed...
...Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. (Second only to General Electric. In June F. A. Merrick succeeded E. M. Herr as president. Sales have averaged about $165,000,000 yearly for six years.) Net profit, first half...
...alone around the world. He learned that the French Government had made him an officer in the Legion of Honor. Voyager Gerbault immediately went to Paris to see the Davis Cup matches (see p. 56). Present there was Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, now a tennis professional, whose refusal to marry M. Gerbault is supposed to have driven him off on his travels. Last week M. Gerbault said: "I think I shall stay ashore for a while now." When he does sail again he will go to live and die in Polynesia, "most perfect country...
John Gilbert, cinemactor, honeymooning with Ina Claire, actress, besieged by reporters, said: "Really, I'm not the world's greatest lover...
Youth, personified by George M. Lott Jr., whom the U. S. substituted the week of the matches for seasoned Francis T. Hunter, was inadequate before Jean Borotra, who leaped about...