Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finest motor car smashups in all the World happen at little crossroads in rural France. For one thing there are no speed laws and barely any traffic. Why then drop below 100 kilometers per hour (62 m. p. h.), just because the perfect road down which one is whizzing must soon cross another? Sacre bleu! If one is a French chauffeur, and if one has waited in the sun all morning at the wheel of a Bugatti or a Farman* then what joy, what exhilaration, when one's fat Spanish employer and a couple of his "little girls" scramble...
...days later His Majesty Tsar Boris called upon M. Liapchev to form another cabinet, for the usual reason: after other statesmen have had their try at assembling a Government, they are usually willing to compromise again on Liapchev. M. Liapchev duly formed another cabinet, but it, too, fell...
...M. Alfred Agache is singularly unimpressed by Manhattan's sky line. M. Agache is French, an architect and employed by the city of Rio de Janeiro to beautify...
...When M. Agache found recently that several enterprising Brazilian architects had laid foundations to build skyscrapers in Rio de Janeiro like those in New York, he immediately ordered all such progress stopped...
Such, in excerpt, are the authentic words wherewith a Christian may be thoroughly damned by the Roman Catholic Church. But not every Catholic who is excommunicated is damned so wholeheartedly. There are degrees. For example, M. Maurice Pujo, famed Managing Editor of the French Royalist newspaper L'Action Française (TIME, July 4, 1927 and Dec. 19), was permitted to be married at Paris last week, in the vestry of a Roman Catholic Church, although not long ago he was excommunicated (TIME, April...