Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worked and summered. Both flat and house were rented. Both will be bought, if the owners' prices are not too dear. Of his Vendee landlady Clémenceau said, not long before he died, with typical Tigeresque cynicism: "She is a royalist countess. She did nothing with this place before I came. It was nothing to her. So I got it on a lease for my lifetime at 300 francs a year [$12]. Now she thinks when I die that perhaps the Government would like to buy it. So in that case she will put on a large price...
...when the last Prussian troops marched out of Paris, crowds of bourgeois housewives expectorated lustily. Great bonfires of straw were burned to "purify" the Place de la Concorde. From German Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) and Coblenz the last Belgian and French troops marched out last week. There were bonfires on the Rhine hillsides, but no expectoration. Rhinelanders waited until the last troop trains had gone, then young folk danced in rain wet streets, old folk breathed an earnest Gott Sei Dank! The Second Zone of Allied Occupation was free...
...Phillips Brooks House Association yesterday announced the appointment of Julius Birge '31 as chairman of the Library Committee to take the place of W. McK. Dunn '30, who was recently elected vice-president of the Association. Nelson Cochrane '32 has been appointed chairman of the Speakers Bureau to fill the place left vacant by the resignation of A. L. Watkins...
...University hockey team will dedicate. Dartmouth's new indoor rink in a game to be held at Hanover on February 8, it has been announced. The dedication exercises will take place during the annual Dartmouth winter carnival. Harvard has taken the place usually held by Yale in being scheduled for this game. The Yale basketball team, however, will be in Hanover to oppose the Indians during the week...
Lieutenant Connor from West Point, who was scheduled on the program, was unable to come, and in place of his bout. H. B. Wessellman '31 and E. L. Lane '24 engaged with epees. One of the fastest matches of the evening was the next one between Levis and Righeimer L. C. Winter '31 and H. B. Veatch '32 put on a very interesting bout with the sabre, followed by the Lane brothers in the only judged match of the evening, in which E. L. Lane won with five touches to four...