Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprise when, one evening, Clémenceau drove to his Château de la Guignardiere and expressed his wish to rent the little farmhouse at St. Vincent sur Jard. M. de Tremont told the old Tiger that he was only too glad to offer the place to him. The story of the old countess seemed the more amusing to me in that M. de Tremont is a bachelor. As he is very wealthy, I doubt very much that he would think of making money out of the last home of Clémenceau...
...Bahnhof, I think), while the Colonel and members of the American Embassy there to receive him waited for their conveyances to come up. The crowd outside was cheering. I recall this occasion very distinctly and even more distinctly the actual meeting of Theodore Roosevelt and Emperor Wilhelm, which took place the next day at an entrance of the Neu Palais, Potsdam; the Emperor stepped forward and heartily greeted the ex-President as he alighted from his carriage. I happen to know, because I was present on both occasions-as the Military Attache at Berlin and, for the week...
...appointed to deputize for King George (TIME, Dec. 10, 1928), and for duty's sake he would shake hands with anyone. Relieved palace officials announced that His Majesty was "too ill" to receive the new Ambassador, that the Prince of Wales would act in his father's place...
Tardieu will himself head the French Delegation at London, with his great and famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand in second place, and Minister of Marine Georges Leygues, whose whiskers seem as wide as the seas themselves, in third. Though M. Briand is nothing if not conciliatory, he shares with M. Tardieu and most Frenchmen a shrewd wish to link the U. S. in disarmament with the League...
...healthy, wooden-faced men in the Mount Athos monasteries were reluctant to tell where the hermit lived. The visitors found him in a high labyrinth of bowlders, a place with a pure blue sky and the sound of bees. "Come in," answered a frail voice (in Russian) when they called. "Here...