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...casting was done by workmen sent from the Trocadero Museum in Paris, under the direction of Lerecule, a man of 82 years of age who has been in the work for over half a century...
...jealousy, it is through small fault of her own, for she most industriously lies to the exhaustive questionnaire he conducts whenever she comes home of an evening. By ingenious analyses he often comes very close to truth about her daily doings. One afternoon she goes to the Trocadero Theatre to see a certain Lea perform. Remembering the Sapphic reputation this actress has, Marcel recalls his Albertine from the matinee. That night, Albertine having been anxious to attend a party at the Verdurins', Marcel goes instead, seeking the cause of the attraction, which develops to be one Mile. Vinteuil...
Convention. A message from President Coolidge opened the Legion's business sessions in the Trocadero Palace. Then came the year's resolutions, chief among them one urging the creation of a separate U. S. department of aeronautics, headed by a Cabinet member, "as soon as warranted." Up jumped Francis Edward McGovern, onetime (1911-15) Governor of Wisconsin, to denounce "as soon as warranted" for a mouthful of "weasel words." Up likewise jumped William Mitchell, stormy onetime assistant chief of the U. S. Army Air Service. Given the platform, he shouted; "The next war will be fought by getting...
...high seas (see page 12) the better part of the American Legion approached ever nearer the land wherein they will hold their monster congress under the great dome of the Trocadero, on the Right bank of the Seine, Paris. And as they came they surreptitiously glanced every now and then at a little of French Made Easy...
...Trocadero, public assembly hall hard by the Eiffel tower, was made ready for the formal convention of 1200 delegates. State of ficials laid out the 3,500,000-franc reception fund which the French parliament lately supplied...