Word: regnier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monte Carlo, in ten minutes between cocktails, one Jules Regnier won 255,000 francs (approximately $10,000). $1,000 per minute for ten minutes is said to be a record...
...last the Secretary of the Academy, M. Robert Regnier, placed the definition of mémoire before the assembly. Said M. Louis Barthou, Minister of Justice, famed historian (TIME, Dec. 27) : "Human beings alone keep the memory of passing events; thus the word mémoire applies to the human race alone...
...Theodore Winthrop made a journey over the Cascades; nine years later, he described his journey in a book, The Canoe and the Saddle. Therein he said: "Mount Regnier, Christians have dubbed it. . . . More melodiously, the Siwashes call it Tacoma?a generic term also applied to all snow peaks." Therewith was engendered a controversy...
Today, including the above elections, there are 37 members, among the most important of whom are: Litterateurs: Joseph Bédier, Paul Bourget, Marcel Prevost, Henri de Regnier; Statesmen: Louis Barthou, Georges Clemenceau, Raymond Poincaré, Jules Cambon; Soldiers: Les Maréchals Ferdinand Foch, Joseph Joffre, Louis Lyautey; Artists: Albert Besnard (the only one) ; Journalist: Georges Lecomte; Educator: Emile Picard...
...term for collars of pearls, but an honest-to-goodness dog collar made of bright-colored leather, studded with jewels or tiny spikes, with a wide fringed border on top and bottom which tortures the neck in hot weather. The collars were introduced by one Madame Regnier, who runs a fashion shop during the day, plays leading roles in French comedies at night...