Word: maisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...western New York and Pennsylvania across northern Ohio to Indiana) what B. Altman & Co. and Lord & Taylor are to Manhattan; what Wanamaker's is to Philadelphia; R. H. Stearns to Boston; Marshall Field's to Chicago; White House to San Francisco; Bullock's to Los Angeles; Maison Blanche to New Orleans...
President M. J. Dal Piaz of the French (Steamship) Line was elected recently President of La Maison des Nations Americanes, a club formed in Paris which proceeded to acquire last week, for 8-000000 francs ($320000), a handsome residence to be transformed into a Franco-American clubhouse...
...Brussels eager citizens peeped and peered from the windows of the ancient guild houses which still surround La Grande Place. Throngs of children and massed delegations representing Belgian societies filled the square, from the old Maison du Roi on one side, nearly to the Gothic arcade of the Hotel de Ville on the other. Suddenly a sleek cavalcade of motors drew up before the Hotel de Ville. The crowds burst into "La Brabançonne."† Down from his motor stepped 24-year-old Crown Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, and was wildly cheered upon the official termination...
Childs-the string of 108 restaurants which stretches across the country from Manhattan to San Francisco-recently boasted about its million-dollar maison at Coney Island, built of "rare marbles and mosaics." The Bulletin became bitter, accused Childs of charging the public more for its bread, butter, toast, coffee, beans, ham-and-eggs than most other restaurants...
...Municipal Council of Paris has offered the Union its choice of several sites for the proposed building, which will be known as the "Maison Des Etudiants," with the provision that the Union raise the funds necessary for the erection of the home. A situation in the midst of the chief educational institutions of Paris has been picked by the Union committee on which the new headquarters will be built...