Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfect valet. Monsieur Jean Chiappe, like New York's Grover Aloysius Whalen, is sartorially pluperfect. He appears at inquests in a cutaway, dashes to the scene of midnight murders in a white tie. It was a beau geste when Chief Chiappe gave Clémenceau Valet Albert employment last week, not as a valet but as a special inspector of police. People who remember that the "Tiger" generally slept in his clothes, hardly ever allowed them to be pressed, and once wore the same hat for twelve years, know that Valet Albert, however faithful, could never valet satisfactorily exquisite...
...Louis Pasteur (1822-95) gave medicine its modern turn and who lived long enough to win a Nobel Prize (1905),* discovered the tuberculosis bacillus. It is often called Koch's bacillus. One of Koch's and Pasteur's early disciples in the new medicine was young Léon Charles Albert Calmette (born 1863, at Nice). He began to practice medicine in Paris as their discoveries and technique were beginning to spread. He was then 23 and amenable to military service, like every young Frenchman after the Franco-German war (1870-71). He went into the French navy, as a doctor...
...That Corner: Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, sportsman, accomplished knitter (TIME...
...What will become of Albert and François?" Frenchmen asked each other last week with sympathetic little shrugs, hoped the answer of Fate would not be too hard. The two old servants were Georges Clémenceau's valet and chauffeur. His last act was to draw their hands to his lips and kiss them, just before he said: "I want no women and I want no tears! Let me die before men" (TIME...
TREASURER *James Roosevelt152 John Cross II 70 Arthur Lithgow Devens 64 POET *Douglas Payne Adams 82 Harrison McGowan Parker 77 Theodore Hall, Jr. 60 Robert Meader Easton 34 Frederick William McNear, Jr. 34 IVY ORATOR *Albert Goodwill Churchill 151 Edward Trumbull Eatchelder 142 MARSHALS *Wallace Russell Harper 516 *James Elmer Barrett 229 *Gardner Lothrop Lewis 182 Lawrence Witherapoon Dickey 170 Bernard Barnes 163 Josiah Warren Potter 154 Guy Constant Holbrook, Jr. 144 William, Potter Lage 110 Thomas Frothingham Mason 103 NEW CONSTITUTION In Favor 163 Majority 23 ORATOR Edward M. M. Warburg 107 Robert Hayden Jones 104 Gerald Wallace Harrington...