Word: jean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...names listed there were no actors or cinemactors, no athletes. Some readers of Dimanche Illustré considered tire tycoon Andre Michelin worthy of immortality and Paris' moral Prefect of Police, Jean Chiappe...
Meanwhile there waited for good weather-as they have waited for weeks- at Old Orchard, Me., U. S. flyers Roger Williams and Lewis Yancey, and French flyers René Lefevre, Jean Assolant and Armeno Lotti Jr.; and at Seville, Spain, French flyers Louis Coudouret and Louis Mallou...
...singles Jean René Lacoste of France beat Tilden; Jean Borotra of France beat Hunter; Borotra, surprisingly, beat Cochet, but lost to the imperturbable, saturnine, inexorable Lacoste in the finals...
...figurine out of a Hindoo temple, its baleful influence followed him to Sussex where, one evening, he was discovered lying across his desk, his throat slit. The figurine had disappeared as well as a Malay kriss which he used for a paper weight. Then Jack Derrick, who loved daughter Jean Millicent, set out to find the murderer of her father. During the process people peered through doors and curtains, a wall panel opened emitting smoke and a greenish glow, girls shrieked, the figurine shone and spoke in the darkness. Even the portrait of the late Millicent found a spectral voice...
With Thomas Testa for an object lesson, Prefect Jean Chiappe of the Paris police took extraordinary precautions to make May Day in Paris peaceful. He mobilized cavalry, infantry, machine gunners; arrested and temporarily detained nearly 3,400 people before they could start a-Maying...