Word: surly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Diego Manuel Chamorro, President since 1921 of Nicaragua, at San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, after a long illness, from diabetes...
Premier Poīncaré in his hebdomadal sermon at Dun-sur-Meuse refused the new German offer. He said that France still waited for the official end of passive resistance in the Ruhr...
Died. George Joseph Demotte, Manhattan and Paris antiquarian, art dealer, near Chaumont-sur-Tharonne, France. Returned from hunting, he was killed by the accidental discharge of a friend's rifle. Last Spring, he brought suit for libel against Sir Joseph Duveen, English art dealer, alleging that the latter stated that an enameled Virgin and Child had not, as Demotte represented, belonged to Queen Isabella the Catholic, of Spain. The case is now pending in the U. S. courts. In the French courts is also pending his suit for breach of confidence against M. Jean Vigoroux, French antiquarian, his former...
Georges Clemenceau: "The film version of my novel, Les Plus Forts, passed after long delay by the national censor, was condemned by the court at La Seyne-sur-Var as 'dangerous to public order and morality and tranquillity...
Emile Bure, editor of L'Eelair, Paris journal, in a pro-Entente article suggests the formation of a "sur-Parlement," or over-Parliament, in which French and British members would deal with questions affecting both countries. In default of a Franco-British Parliament, M. Bure suggests frequent meetings between British M. P.'s and French Deputies with the object, not only of strengthening the Entente, but of assimilating the foreign policy of each country toward the other. It is understood that such meeting will be arranged for by the French and British Governments...