Word: pr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must think," soothed Premier Herriot, patting the ex-President on the shoulder with a big, consoling paw, "You must think. Monsieur le Président, of nothing except how willingly the Chamber has voted you this aid! You must think of how glad the people of all France are to have you accept...
...Certain Type of College Pr--Professor...
...Blue calico dress for Susie Bigfoot; 30 Ib. boiling beef for Hudson's; 4 pr. gumboots size 11 Lucky Strike Mining Co.; dozen phonograph records assorted Joe Slisco; rosebush knocked down deputy marshal; 2 live pigs not exceed 10 Ib.; 2 Ib. epsom salts...
...biographies in parvo. They are like unusually well-written, extremely urbane short stories. Some of their subjects: Elizabethan Sir John Harington, who, "suddenly inspired," invented the water-closet. Jacobean Dr. North, Master of Trinity College (Cambridge), whom illness transmogrified from a scrupulous moralist into a ribald debauchee. The Président de Brosses, the man who got the better of Voltaire over a bill for firewood. Mary Berry, last survivor of the 18th Century, who "could even make Frenchmen hold their tongues; she could even make Englishmen talk." Strachey pays his unrespectful but never impertinent respects to six fellow-historians...
...Nicholas II's four daughters squealed with rapture when nice old President Raymond Poincaré brought them wrist watches, then a great novelty. One day last week an entire moving van full of presents and regalia swung out of the courtyard behind which lives modest, genial M. Le Président Gaston Doumergue. "Notre bon Gastounet va en la Tunisie!" murmured the crowd. But before beloved little Gaston could be off he had to do a final chore...