Word: mon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning, when Le Train Bleu glided into Monte Carlo Station, His Highness Prince Pierre Marie Xavier Raphaël Antoine Melchior de Polignac, Due de Valentinois, and Comte de Polignac, stepped forth before suspicious, hostile eyes. Proud, race-conscious Monégasques (Monaco natives) despise Prince Pierre as a mere naturalized citizen of Monaco, and a black-hearted Frenchman under his skin. They sneer at the means by which he became Crown Prince-married into it, faugh...
Through angry muttering crowds of Monégasques, Prince Pierre proceeded resolutely to confer with members of the resigned National Council, and especially with soft-voiced, steel-eyed M. Léon, the young manager of Monte's famed Casino...
...Casino Syndicate-has frequently acted in a manner arbitrary, unjust, scandalous. Finally the resigned and angry councilors made formal demand upon Prince Pierre that he summon his father-in-law Prince Louis from Paris and set up a commission to investigate and right the wrongs of the 22,153 Monégasques...
...Fannie Brice worked into her act in the Ziegfeld Follies a Channing Pollock translation of the French tune "Mon Homme." She knew that if her man got another chance, he would go straight. "No matter what he is," she sang, "I am his . . ." and the song, sung well enough to be effective even if it had not had any particular significance, moved her hearers to an extraordinary pitch of sentiment because they knew that her husband, Jules W. ("Nicky") Arnstein, was serving sentence at the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth. Now, in her first picture, she sings "My Man" again...
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