Word: rene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mayor is up in the air a good deal of the time! Ha ha!" This was a jovial pun, for the Mayor's guest was no other than the Allied ace of aces, destroyer of the Boche terror Herr Wisseman, avenger of famed Ace Guynemer, M. le Capitaine Rene Fonck, late of the French Cigognes ("Storks," crack escadrille). He had called to explain more or less formally that he was about to fly across the Atlantic, starting from Roosevelt Field, L. I. The Man. In uniform, Captain Fonck is heavily encrusted with medals, palms and citations, as befits...
...cope with the German invasion, the famed Union Sacree was formed with the Rooseveltian M. Rene Viviani as Premier (Aug. 26, 1914). It was this government which removed to Bordeaux (Sept. 2, 1914) when the German advance was at its height. The second Wartime Union Sacree was formed with M. Briand as Premier...
Fortune dubbed Vincent Richards her knight last week, as the Franco-U. S. mixed team tournament ended on the courts of the Parisian Racing Club. Three sets went 7-5, 4-6, 8-6-the middle one to Rene Lacoste, the other two to Vincent Richards. Miss Wills bagged two sets from Mme.Rene Mathieu, 6-3, 6-4. Howard Kinsy took two sets out of three from Paul Feret, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. The Richards Lacoste play was uneven, ragged-served none the less to reverse Lacoste's triumph over Richards at Manhattan, last February...
...week before in the national indoor championship (TIME, March 1). The crowd loudly announced its pleasure at this denoument which won, by three matches to two, an international team match wherein Vincent Richards and this tall actor had each been beaten individually by U. S. Indoor Champion Rene Lacoste. But Actor-Champion William T. Tilden had little time for curtain calls in the Seventh Regiment Armory. Another public was waiting. What he needed was another taxi, more grease paint and a certain cue in That Smith...
...Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826), French, invented the stethoscope; discovered auscultation; was a specialist on local diagnosis...