Word: ren
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aquatic stunts earned him the title of "the baby water wizard." As Gar Wood's mechanic he won many a race in boats built by his father.* Chris-Crafts tenders are popular among yachtsmen (General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan recently bought one for his new yacht, the René) because the hardware and woodwork of each one is contrived to harmonize with that of the mother ship. Of every 100 Chris-Craft boats turned out in Algonac, 13 are destined to zoom over foreign waters. Scandinavians use them as a means of commuting among the fjords and inlets...
Meanwhile there waited for good weather-as they have waited for weeks- at Old Orchard, Me., U. S. flyers Roger Williams and Lewis Yancey, and French flyers René Lefevre, Jean Assolant and Armeno Lotti Jr.; and at Seville, Spain, French flyers Louis Coudouret and Louis Mallou...
Academician René Bazin had written: ''Do not judge a country by the first citizen you happen to meet nor the first newspaper you happen to read. Study its history...
...singles Jean René Lacoste of France beat Tilden; Jean Borotra of France beat Hunter; Borotra, surprisingly, beat Cochet, but lost to the imperturbable, saturnine, inexorable Lacoste in the finals...
...which the magazine has "exclusive right to describe and publish the latest models" supplied each month by 17 tip-top Parisian couturiers, including. Chanel, Lanvin, Poiret, Jane Régny, Lucile, Pre-met, Lenief, Louiseboulanger, Nicole Groult, Worth, Paquin, Jenny, Drecoll-Beer, Redfern, Doeuillet-Doucet, Philippe et Gaston, renée. Said the Ladies' Home Journal for May: "Our patterns are not inspired by Paris, they are not adapted from. Paris; they are actually designed, created and shown in the salons of the French haute couture," Once upon a time-Wartime-the Journal conducted a campaign...