Word: rue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will soon be installed as curator of a "Clémenceau Museum." Funds are rapidly being raised. Checks are mailed to the Clémenceau estates executor. M. Nicolas Pietri, at the Chamber of Deputies. The "museum" will be either the three-room, ground floor flat at No. 8 Rue Franklin, Paris, where the Tiger worked and died, or the tiny, one-story stone house with a partly thatched roof in the Vendee, where he worked and summered. Both flat and house were rented. Both will be bought, if the owners' prices are not too dear. Of his Vendee...
...Lucie de la Rue-Mardrus (translator, with her husband, of The Arabian Nights): "The jury of Var farmers returned the same verdict as would have been returned by a jury of intellectuals...
Months ago a group of British and U. S. correspondents waited day after day in a draughty courtyard in the Rue de Crenelle playing cards, drinking beer, arguing, squabbling, waiting for Marshal Foch to die. Last week the identical men were waiting in another courtyard, across the Seine in the Rue Franklin beneath the window of Georges Clémenceau...
...said: "The Duke and Duchess de Talleyrand regret keenly to announce the critical illness of their son, Howard. . . . He shot himself because we refused him permission to marry until he was 21. ... The shooting took place in our home and our son was taken to a hospital in the Rue Puccini. . . . Our son is now in an extremely grave condition. We wish to emphasize that we had no objection to the girl, but only opposed the marriage because...
Harvard O'Neil, 2b.; Ketchum, 3b.; 3b.; Notty, e.f.; Sims, c.; Huxtable, s.s.; Donaldson, l.f., Davis, 1b.; Crehan, r.f.; La Rue...