Word: petitiveness
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Third speaker from abroad was Mme Paul Dupuy of Paris, who was born Helen Browne of Manhattan. Out of a French finishing school, Miss Browne married Paul Dupuy, son of the publisher of Le Petit Parisien. Three weeks after M. Dupuy's death in 1927 his widow was installed in his office, learning to boss the largest group of publications in France. Since then, she has trained her two sons to succeed her. Mme Dupuy entertains lavishly at Versailles and at her apartment in Passy, sports the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor. Her message to the Conference...
Married. Dorothy Constance Spreckels, 21, daughter of the late Adolph Bernard Spreckels, California sugarman; and Jean Dupuy, 24, son of Mme Paul Dupuy, French newspaper and magazine owner (Le Petit Parisien, Excelsior); in Manhattan...
Said one of the professors, M. Petit...
First race. Miguel Barella, captain of the Spanish team, failed to get his motor going in time to start. Britain's Joseph C. Turner, who smokes a pipe while driving, saw his flywheel jump overboard. France's Jeari Dupuy (Petit Parisien) hit a buoy. Horace Tennes, 21-year-old Northwestern undergraduate, driving his Hootnanny VI won at 52.6 m.p.h., three seconds ahead of the other collegian on the U. S. team, Philip Ellsworth of Bucknell, a mile ahead of the rest of the field...
...Prefect of Police he became the complete boulevardier. From his little office on the Ile de la Cité with its hideous blue wallpaper he started a slashing campaign against reckless taxi drivers and the vendors of filthy pictures. He calls everyone either mon petit or mon enfant, wears made-to-order shoes with two-inch heels and has won the adoration of the uniformed force. He has also become very rich, owns a chateau and a racing stable...