Word: quartier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...demonstration at Joseph Zelli's justly celebrated Montmartre night club. Lieutenant Noville, rough, ready and with gay French blood in him was perfectly at home. Blond, blocky Bernt Balchen did not come into his own until his fellow Scandinavians held a special Viking evening for him in the Quartier Latin. Newsgatherers made life hard for Hero Chamberlin by treating Hero Levine, politely yet distinctly, as a large black fly in the ointment. Mr. Levine was a civilian and owed his place in the sun to being a shrewd, adventurous moneybags. His omnipresence in a company of aeronauts was grotesque...
...Paris, in the Quartier Latin, one Juliana Hastre, young Argentine singer, was gowning for dinner when a messenger delivered to her an egg of prehistoric proportions, an Easter token from her friend Mlle. Van Hong Lu in India. Taking the present with her to the evening's revel at another friend's house, Mile. Hastre exhibited its glossy chocolate surface and sugary frosting, caused mouths to water at the thought of sweet liqueurs or sugary stuffing within, caused shrieks of horror when, cracking the shell, she released half a dozen scabrous tropical cockroaches and a vicious, adult scorpion, which immediately...
...ministerial decree, the boundaries of Paris were extended to make room for a new Quartier, that of Auteuil, which includes the whole of the Bois de Boulogne and the two race courses, Auteuil and Longchamps. The Bois was virtually owned by Paris for many years, but technically it belonged to the Commune of Boulogne...
...closing of that institution, all of which took place in consequence of the students' strike (TIME, Apr. 6), a nationwide students' strike was called. It was limited in the Provinces to expressions of sympathy, but, in the French metropolis, practically all the students in the Quartier Latin were enjoying the rest of a quiet strike. Upward of 10,000 of them paraded the streets as an orderly protest against the Government...
Dense crowds of students patrolled the streets of the Latin Quartier, traffic was held up. Here and there, a few venturesome voices sang the Internationale, which was instantly drowned in roars of the Marseillaise. All doors were picketed by groups of students who had wisely provided themselves with food and wine. Shouts of "Conspuez Herriot!" (literally, "Spit upon Herriot!"), "A has Georges Scelle!'' "Vive le roil" "A has la Republique!" were frequently heard. Police and the Garde Republicaine were called out, attempted to restore order...