Word: academicians
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During the election campaign, ex-Premier Paul Painlevé, pacifist, academician, the man reputed to have favored pacifism during the War, yet took such delight in claiming responsibility for the appointment of le maréchal Foch to supreme command of the French Army that he wrote a book about it, this man was reported in the Écho de Paris to have said: "Citoyens! The bloc National is the cause of all our national calamities. ... I am French, but I am European. . . . Liberty, fraternity, socialism! . . . Peace with Soviet Russia! . . . Above all peace with republican and pacific Germany...
...This Academician Is Also a Good Journalist Henry Seidel Canby, best known, perhaps, as Editor of the Literary Review of the New York Evening Post, possesses unquenchable vitality, indulges in innumerable activities. He still gives a course at Yale University, to which he formerly gave all of his time as Professor of English. He writes essays, book reviews and, on special occasions, novels. He is an editorial advisor for Harper Brothers. He lectures-and doubtless does many other things of which a former pupil of his does not know...
Pierre Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viaud), French novelist, sculptor, painter, musician, Academician and Naval officer (Jan. 14, 1850). Author of Le mariage de Loti, Le Roman d'un Spahi, Pêcheur d'lslande, Mon Frère Yves and other colorful novels, frequently drawn from his own experiences in the tropics. Loti's literary influence waned perceptibly during his last years...
Georges Clemenceau: "I attended a private showing of a moving picture based on my novel. After the exhibition I asked: 'Am I permitted to make comments'? 'Certainly.' 'It would be advisable, I think, to suppress the bad spelling in the sub-titles.' ' But they are the work of an Academician.' ' If you think,' I returned, ' that Academicians know how to spell, that only proves the solidity of a legend...
...Emile Augier. In 1915 he was appointed Minister without portfolio in the Briand administration. He wrote many books, the best of which were on such subjects as railway economics, infinitesimal analysis, irrigation and the philosophy of science. That is the outline of his life as a statesman, politician, academician, writer...