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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...M. Camerlynck was no mere polylinguist. He comprehended many tongues, but he translated only between English and French. His German was too correct and stilted. It was only to his chosen and special art that this little man from Flanders brought facility and fidelity which at times seemed miraculous. Gliding like an actor imperceptibly into the rôle of the statesman for whom he was translating, Professor Camerlynck would seem to become by turns Statesmen Lloyd George, Clémenceau, Wilson, Balfour, Hughes, Briand, Dawes or perhaps that wily Greek, old Eleutherios Venizelos. "We Greeks!" M. Camerlynck would...
...four years as interpreter to a British artillery regiment. Then the great, unexpected appointment as Chief Interpreter to the Paris Peace Conference, the chance of a lifetime which turned a brittle, impecunious professor into the confidant of the Big Three at their most secret and vital meetings. Perhaps M. Camerlynck was even present on that celebrated evening when Georges Clémenceau and David Lloyd George are supposed to have gotten Woodrow Wilson convivially stimulated,, but if so the little Fleming never told. When asked in his later years: "Why don't you write your memoirs?" Gustave Henri Camerlynck...
Married. Elizabeth M. D. Robinson of Washington, D. C., daughter of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Theodore Douglas Robinson; and Jacques de Sibour, Washington socialite; in Washington...
...largest city of Marshall County, West Virginia, is Moundsville (pop. 12,000), on the Ohio River. One of the most important preachers of Moundsville is Dr. Donald M. Grant, of the First Presbyterian Church...
Married. Thomas Nesbitt McCarter Jr., of Rumson, N. J., son of the president of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey; and Suzanne M. Pierson, Manhattan & Newport socialite; in Palm Beach...