Word: petit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questions put by Subscriber Klopp well merit answers. These answers vary from state to state, but in general: 1) Grand Jury lists are selected from petit jury lists by a sheriff or some other county official; from this list the names of grand jurors are drawn by lot; 2) a grand jury has 13 to 24 members; 3) it usually sits throughout a court term; 4) pay is nominal...
...Prince Charlie. And if it was revealed in the Middle Ages by the continued existence of a king of the Romans it is no less apparent now in the prolonged life of the French Royalist party. But the latest reports, that the fiery Camelots du Roi are in fact petit bourgeouis whose families have arisen since the Revolution is slightly disconcerting to one who has pictured them secretly trailing the rusty awords and moth-eaten pupple of their titled ancestors...
...Ambassador Jusserand called at the White House accompanied by Senator Paul Dupuy of France (owner of Le Petit Parisien and close friend of Premier Poincaré) for an informal discussion of Franco-American relations. Afterwards, M. Jusserand was asked by reporters what M. Dupuy had had to say. The Ambassador, who like the French Senator is a newspaper man, replied with a French proverb: "Les loups ne se mangent pas entre eux" (literally, "The wolves do not eat themselves among one another...
...size of an American daily. Within this radius the papers are distributed by small cars and cyclists to thousands of cafés. These cafés, opening early in the morning, make their profit by feeding the news agents and news vendors who come for their supply of Petit Parisiens. A corps of 15 super-inspectors and 60 district chiefs is on the move from dawn till sunset to keep the circulation booming in every quarter of Paris...
...town Le Petit Parisien deals with 18,000 news agents. Agents are credited with copies which are returned unsold. At Clichy (suburb of Paris) a special service checks these returns, the cost of this service being barely covered by the cash derived from the sale of the returns as waste paper...