Word: parks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Zizi, a desperate young thing, wandered through the Bois de Boulogne, where lovers are wont to prowl. But the lovers had fled far away leaving the Bois empty, save for gendarmes. Three days Zizi spent in the park while the man who had first wooed her from the Malayan jungle, wrung his hands in distress. Then one morning she left the park to visit a boys' school. The master spied her, called gendarmes. She fled into a lavatory, jumped out of a window, but the gendarmes pursued her with bullets and she died in a ditch. The leopard hunter...
...conversations proceeded that afternoon until about 6 o'clock. At the Hyde Park Hotel, M. Briand was besieged by clamorous reporters. To them he said: "The French and British viewpoints regarding the security compact have come materially closer together as a result of today's conversations. I believe-no, you may say I am confident-that one more meeting tomorrow will suffice for us to arrive at an agreement on the wording of the reply to Germany...
...statesmen posed for the ubiquitous cameramen, beaming and cracking jokes in French. "Non," he had nothing to say for publication. The two custodians of their respective countries' foreign policies exchanged smiles and followed them up with an exchange of hearty farewells. M. Briand sped away to the Hyde Park Hotel in Knightsbridge. Mr. Chamberlain betook him to his residence in Morpeth Mansions...
...hiatus occurred in the conversations at lunch time. At the French Embassy in Albert Gate House, Hyde Park, a great assemblage of dignitaries rendered homage to M. de Fleurian's cuisine. Most distinguished of the guests was Alanson B. Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, attired immaculately as ever, owlish in his heavy horn-rimmed spectacles. His presence at the political feast, considered a signficant sign of U. S. interest in the security parley, despite unequivocal and official denials, was a topic of discussion for days after. Rightly or wrongly...
...talk continued. Deputies slept. Some walked out of the Reichstag and quaffed beer, in the Tiergarten (park) or sat on the benches. So noticeable was the exodus that a Socialist rose to move that the session be moved to the Tiergarten or loud speakers loud enough to reach the innermost recesses of the park be installed. After a few days they were required to wake up, vote on the measures. They did, passing them by average majorities...