Word: touts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years before. Died. Gaitan Ardisson, 74, sculptor-adviser to Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney; at the Whitney estate, Wheatley Hills, Westbury, L. I. Aged, ill, Sculptor Ardisson clambered wearily up a 100 ft. water tower, leapt. In his pocket was a note, "Mrs. Whitney-you win. Tan-Tan, [his son], tout est atteint [all is accomplished]." Died. William H. Thompson, 75, president of the Thompson Time Stamp† Co.; in Manhattan. Died. Charles William Eliot, 92; at Northeast Harbor, Maine...
Resident-General Steeg of Morocco is reputed to have secured Krim's surrender by promises of immunity; whereas at Paris and Madrid a considerable faction began last week to tout the slogan: "Hang Abd-El-Krim...
...Tout Paris buzzed with an astounding rumor, a rumor that after 64 years of bachelorhood Premier Briand of France had become engaged...
...more be known of himself than that he was born in Jefferson, Tex., went to school and college in "that prodigious state", worked on The Dallas News and The New York Times, had short stories in Scribner's, Collier's and other magazines. Embarrassing, because he is obliged to tout his own work for the good of his employers, and to send out pictures of a countenance, whose ascetic air he would denounce as false-seeming. The embarrassment should end speedily; the work will tout itself. The strategy will soon fail; people will want to known more...
...Tout est bien qui finit bien, remarked Dr. Louis Barthélemy, once Dean of the Law Faculty at the Université de Paris, after quitting a reception by Sénateur Anatole de Monzie, Minister of Education. The Minister had requested the ex-Dean to become once more Dean...