Word: ba
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Ba-ta-clan is a theatre in Paris where M. Millerand made a famous speech in 1919 when the Bloc National was formed...
...manner of the entrance was entirely Millerandian. As President of a newly-formed National Republican League, successor to the Bloc National, whose birthplace was the Ba-ta-clan* and whose epitaph was written in the May elections, M. Millerand, backed by 13 of his faithful henchmen, stood not on the order of his coming. In language, pointed and strong, he denounced the Herriot Government in a carefully prepared manifesto. He objected...
Another section of the "will" is a bequest made to Mme. Rasimi (well-known Parisienne entrepreneuse and directress of the Ba-ta-Clan Theatre, where Millerand once delivered a famed address) of "a republic entirely done over and entirely renovated and a demolished National Bloc, all of which is to be used as accessories for a new comedy which is destined to change the Ba-ta-Clan into a Washout Palace...
...Lauder, Sir Harry. . . . Educ; by Stumpy Bell as a half-timer in Arbroath. Career varied: first, mill-boy in flax-spinning mill, then a miner, now is what the people have made him. . . . Recreations: trying to hit a wee gutty ba', trying to catch salmon and trout, motoring...
...which M. Poincaré belongs. His answers were found unsatisfactory, with the result that the leaders of the Block National went over his head and approached President Millerand direct, as it was the latter who, with ex-Premer Clemenceau, founded the Bloc in 1919, when Millerand made his famed Ba-Ta-Clan speech (so named from the Paris theatre in which the speech was delivered) which laid down the objects of the Bloc...