* 1917 – Pierre Sévigny, Canadian soldier, author, and politician ( d. 2004 )

The reemergence of Cubism coincided with the appearance from 1917 to 1924 of a coherent body of theoretical writing by Pierre Reverdy, Maurice Raynal and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and, among the artists, by Gris, Léger and Gleizes.

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

Joseph Pierre Albert Sévigny, PC, OC, CD, VM, ED ( September 12, 1917 – March 20, 2004 ) was a Canadian soldier, author, politician, and academic.

Paul Langevin, previously a doctoral student of Pierre Curie and later a lover of Marie Curie, is also famous for his two US patents with Constantin Chilowski in 1916 and 1917 regarding a systematic ultrasonic submarine detection.

In July 1917 the Pelletiers arrived in New York City where they were befriended by conductor Pierre Monteux who introduced them to important people in the musical social circles of the city.

It was first described by Pierre Marie and Chatelin in 1917.

In 1924, Chanel made an agreement with the Wertheimer brothers, Pierre and Paul, directors of the eminent perfume house Bourgeois since 1917, creating a corporate entity, " Parfums Chanel.

George-Étienne Cartier was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1925.

In 1917, the United States purchased St. John, St. Thomas, and St. Croix from Denmark for US $ 25 million, renaming them the United States Virgin Islands.

The paper was purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1917.

In 1917, a treaty was concluded in which the United States purchased the islands for $ 25, 000, 000.

In 1917, the United States purchased the islands, which had been in economic decline since the abolition of slavery.

The most famous example is Fountain ( 1917 ), a standard urinal purchased from a hardware store and displayed on a pedestal, resting on its side.

In 1917, the city of Mesa purchased the utility company.

In 1917, the United States Army purchased of land about seven miles ( 11 km ) north of Savanna to construct the Savanna Army Depot.

* 1912-1924 Baltimore & Ohio purchased the rail line servicing Gilboa in 1912 and shut it down sometime between 1917 & 1924 ( Railroad records say by 1919 but a 1922 map shows the railroad while a 1924 ODOT map does not ).

It was purchased and restored in 1917 by Alexis Prior.

In connection with a 1917 master plan for a central Chicago campus and President Walter D. Scott's capital campaign, of land were purchased at the corner of Chicago Avenue and Lake Shore Drive for $ 1. 5 million in 1920.

In 1916, the Thomas B. Jeffery Company was purchased by Charles W. Nash and became Nash Motors Company in 1917.

She was purchased from the Eastern Steamship Line of Boston, Massachusetts and commissioned 14 December 1917, at the Boston Navy Yard.

*, was purchased by the US Navy as SS Massachusetts from the Eastern Steamship Co. in 1917 ; commissioned 7 December 1917 and renamed Shawmut 7 January 1918

*, was a steam trawler purchased by the US Navy 18 April 1917 and sold 1 December 1919

The railroad was declared bankrupt in 1917 and purchased a year later.

Founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright as an imprint of their publishing company Boni & Liveright, it was purchased in 1925 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.

The city tram of Kobe opened in 1910 by a private company and was purchased by the city government in 1917.

In 1917 Alfred Loomis and Landon K. Thorne, the wealthy husband of Loomis's sister Julia, purchased of Hilton Head Island, which they established as a private preserve for riding, boating, fishing, and hunting.

Mack trucks earned this nickname in 1917, during World War I, when the British government purchased the Mack AC model to supply its front lines with troops, food and equipment.

In 1917, the United States purchased the former Danish colony of St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas, which is now the U. S. Virgin Islands.

Since the Sisters of Jesus and Mary ( a religious order ( Roman Catholic )), purchased the site in 1917, there have been a significant number of new developments at the school, most recently an award winning Science and Junior Classroom wing ( AVDC Outstanding Design Award ).

*, a tugboat purchased in 1917, renamed Mendota ( YT-3 ) in 1920, then to Muscotah in 1932, and placed out of service in 1934

In 1917, St. Thomas was purchased ( along with Saint John and Saint Croix ) by the United States for $ 25 million in gold, as part of a defensive strategy to maintain control over the Caribbean and the Panama Canal during the First World War.

Haig told General Gough of the Fifth Army that he would command of the ' northern operation ' and the coastal force on 30 April 1917.

* 23 August – 1 September 1917: Joined 5 Corps in Fifth Army.

The Fifth World Congress decided that the period between 1917 and 1924 had been one of revolutionary upsurge, but that the new period was marked by the stabilization of capitalism and that revolutionary attempts in the near future were to be stopped.

Following this, elements of the corps took part in the fighting around Bullecourt during April and May and Messines in June in support of II ANZAC before the corps as a whole was committed to the fighting around Ypres as part of the Fifth Army in September 1917.

Their major actions ended in the summer of 1917 at the Battle of Passchendaele after coming under the command of General Hubert Gough and the Fifth Army.

In 1917 the Fifth Army was involved in the Battle of Arras and then the Third Battle of Ypres.

Gough described the meeting held on 28 June 1917 by Haig with Gough and Plumer, as evidence of Haig's understanding and acceptance of the Fifth Army plan.

Following sea service, Rockey sailed for France in June 1917, and one year later, as a member of the Fifth Marine Regiment, participated in the Aisne-Marne Defensive ( Château-Thierry ).

291 is the commonly known name for an internationally famous art gallery that was located at 291 Fifth Avenue in New York City from 1905 to 1917.

When he married, he lived with his family alongside other R. J. Reynolds executives on Fifth Street in Winston-Salem until 1917, when they moved to Reynolda House, a estate on the outskirts of town that also housed a village where Reynolds workers could live.

Immediately prior to the U. S. entry of World War I, Hulbert was appointed a Marine Gunner ( believed to be the first ) with the Fifth Regiment on March 27, 1917.