Word: michels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might contract a marriage with Princess Ileana of Rumania. 3) Since the Hohenzollern dynasty which now rules over Rumania was elected to that eminence only 60 years ago, it is conceivable that the Rumanian Parliament might transfer the Rumanian Crown from the present Rumanian heir, five-year-old Prince Michel, to the vigorous and able proposed "King Albrecht," supposititious husband of Princess Ileana of Rumania. Thus might be created a Dual Kingdom...
...posted ?1,000 ($4,870) to that end. Last week, puffing and panting, swimmer Norman Leslie Derham of Southend waded ashore at Dover to collect Lord Riddell's money. His time was 13 hrs.: 56 min.-35 min. faster than Miss Ederle, but 171 min. slower than Baker Michel of France. British hardihood was somewhat vindicated...
Pale-skinned and obviously overweight, a huge mealy fellow whose labored breathing spoke of too many days spent at an indoor occupation and whose coated ribs hinted at a diet that contained too many starches, Georges Michel, Paris baker, staggered onto the beach having beaten the world's record for channel swimming with a time of eleven hours five minutes. Stalking into a tiny bar in St. Margaret's he had his double whisky and talked about the trip. Champagne, he said, had helped him. He had felt a little seasick but that had passed. Then a cramp...
...blue waistcoats, and still speaks a Celtic dialect. His emotionalism is bound up with the sea-to the north of his peninsula, he looks out on the gilded bronze statue of St. Michael standing 165 ft. above the waves on the Gothic spire of the fortress-abbey Mont St. Michel; to the south in the harbor of St. Nazaire, he now sees an American doughboy, sword in hand, eagerly poised atop the back of an eagle with graceful, outspread wings...
...other French lecturer, Professor Michel-Charles Diehl of the Sorbonne will speak in Fine Arts 14f and 14g, the first on Byzantine Art in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and the latter on the Role of Syria in the formation and expansion of Byzantine...