Word: normans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon ceremony M. Pierre Marraud, French Minister of Public Instruction, formally presented the pictures to U. S. Chargé d'Affaires Norman Armour, who thanked him gracefully. Later the audience strolled about the hall to look at the pictures. They were curious to see the 1,400 most famous living Frenchmen. Beneath each portrait was a message from the subject...
...Property." Capri is also known to some as "the Mecca of Malcontents" but at all events, here are four men who feel that Capri's air should be known to all the world even at the cost of trouble to themselves. In other words, Mr. Young, assisted by Norman Douglas, Louis Golding and R. R. Reynolds, have translated Cerio's work in their characteristically brilliant...
...half-century ago, in the same year that the late E. W. Scripps was establishing the first of his chain, the Cleveland Press, Norman Edward Mack, a Canadian country boy who had learned about advertising in Chicago, was establishing the Times in Buffalo. At first it was a Sunday paper only. In 1883, he made it a daily. It served him well, and he it, during a career of which the high mark was the Mack chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee (1908). Upon selling out to Scripps-Howard, Mr. Mack, now 70, has retired...
...happy to be back and to see so many familiar faces again," he called. The cars moved on up the hill to the plump Norman tower of Windsor Castle...
...prison for thieves and political offenders. Old as was the Petit Châtelet, its winding subterranean crypts and dungeons were even older, and included a portion of a long forgotten secret tunnel under the Seine built when 9th Century Paris was besieged by fierce red-haired Norman pirates. The Petit Châtelet was pulled down in a popular uprising just before the Revolution, its more obvious cellars filled in and forgotten...