Word: tunisians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cossack and clown hats, now sweeping France as copies of the Camel cigaret slouch hat are sweeping U. S. department stores. According to smartchart scouts, the originator of the season's high hattery is the lovely Comtesse Francois-Guillaume de Maigret who persuaded Maria Guy to adapt a Tunisian Chechia on her return from an African vacation, and wore it with devastating success at Parisian race tracks. Other milliners hurried in with other high hats. ¶ Plaid evening dresses are enormously popular. In colors navy blue leads black for street wear; "string color," a tannish off-white, is most...
...vanload of presents stowed away in the baggage car of his special train- presents for the Bey of Tunis: a gold encrusted hunting rifle and splendorous vases of Sevres porcelain. For all the wives of the Bey of Tunis, knowing Bachelor Doumergue took bracelets, earrings and other jewelry. For Tunisian chiefs he took dozens of dazzlingly chased rifles...
...another tutoring school has tentatively reared its head in the purlieus of Cambridge Town. Its site, opposite Arthur's and the Lampoon, has advantages. When the Tunisian has become too grant for those who have shunned drinking deep they may find quick relief in gastronomic delights, or, by going up stairs, in stilled laughter. The inauguration of this institution is just another phase of the college hegira from the sanctuary of the Yard to the more rarified atmosphere of the riverbank...
Bill No. 1 would increase to 250,000,000 francs ($9,775.000) the amount of money annually to be loaned shipbuilders. With particular favor will the builders of fast ships be looked upon, especially if the craft are to be placed in Algerian, Tunisian or Moroccan service. In addition to helping lines which will afford speedier communications with the colonies, the bill is designed to reduce the minimum interest rate from 3% to 2% on government loans now outstanding to shipbuilders, excepting passenger shipbuilders who will continue to pay the old rate of interest...
About 25,000 communicants attended, traveling by ship from all quarters. Neither Carthage nor much larger Tunis, ten miles away, could house them all. Most lived on their ships in Tunis harbor. Several thousand lived in tents on a large plot of ground provided gratis by a rich Tunisian Jew, and surrounded by gewgaws, food and drink stands. A couple of thousand found quarters with thrifty Tunisians, Moslems and Jews, who scraped and cooed to these profitable "infidels." The visiting "infidels" sharply eyed the resident "infidels," for white burnous-clad Mohammedans had cruelly murdered Christians and destroyed great Christian Carthage...