Word: voile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This statement was promptly smeared by a member of the Doom household as an "invention," but Ken's Editor Arnold Gingrich insisted the "interview" was authentic. It first appeared in the September 30 issue of Voilà, a Paris weekly that specializes in nude pictures and pornographic reporting. Mr. Gingrich said he could not get permission to print the real name of Author "Burckhardt," who was reported by Ken's Paris agents to be "something of a dilettante who hobnobs with the royal bunch...
...from the South, descriptions of Boulder Dam and Bonneville Flats, the U. S. national anthem (La Bannière Par-semèe d'Etoiles}. Three broadcasts are devoted to New York City, describing everything from Harlem's dance halls to Wall Street ("la maison Morgan, voilá guelque chose...
...helped along the line, hand over hand. Once the rope broke, plunged a man into the water. Captain Stanton dived after him grappled, quieted the fellow with a blow, dragged him ashore. At last all were reported saved. It had been thought that Missionary R. D. E. Voil was lost, but Anglicans breathed easier to learn he had disembarked before the pretty, white Southern Cross VI went down,'battered and smashed, on Aneityum's coral reef...
...suit which had actually been pressed! His valet hovered in the offing with a hatbox and a suitcase. Out of the box could come a high silk hat, and out of the case a full dress suit. Put these clothes on Briand and- you would have the President-Elect-voilá! It was the valet's great and tragic hour. Afterward Frenchmen cynically said: "Briand's friends all cheered for him- but many voted for Doumer. Comprenez? The vote of confidence in the Chamber was public, the vote for the President secret. Briand could not hold...