Word: res
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pale, haggard, he sought the villa of Joseph Farinelli, his wealthy friend. His bodyguard, 20 strong, was swelled by a cordon of Swiss police desperately uneasy lest he be assassinated. Secretly he returned the official calls of his distinguished confréres, who were busy with the final details of the Pact. In these last-minute negotiations he took no part. With the fears and the aloofness of a Sultan he remained secluded until the hour when he must add his pen scratch to the others...
...Author. Mrs. Edith Wharton (née Jones of New York), a vigorous lady of 63, seldom leaves the cosmopolitan stream of charming and distinguished people constantly passing through her villa at Hyères on the Mediterranean and her house in Paris. Since 1899, she has been known as the most apt pupil Novelist Henry James ever had-a pupil with a score of polished books to her credit, including one American masterpiece, Ethan Frame...
...that the well-known medical firm at No. 23 Wall St., Manhattan, had saved the day. Reports originating from the French Ministry of Finance stated that the franc recovered when there was a rush of buyers to cover a shortage, following the operation of one bank, Lazard Frères, in throwing ?3,000,000 on the Paris Bourse in one day. But the psychological effect of Morgan's thundering loan was decisive. It was never expected that the full sum would be used. A large portion of the loan was used, approximately $33,000,000, nearly...
...Order of the Leek," all those who could produce documentary evidence proving that their families had farmed the same land continuously for at least three centuries. This brought forth about 750 families with the necessary qualifications, the record being held by the La Fargues of Coutie near Moliéres,, who have lived on the same estate since 772, or two years after Charlemagne had succeeded his father as ruler of the entire Prankish monarchy...
France will probably be badly bumped on the Folies Bergères expedition. They come with the notion that their production is superior to those of native managers. They believe that they can establish by the visit the supremacy of France across the orchestra and footlights. This they cannot do unless they call into consultation American musical comedy doctors. America has had the most and the tiredest business men for too many years not to have developed the funniest comedians, the loudest and fastest jazz and the most beautiful race of chorus girls that the world has ever seen...