Word: aix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Aga Sultan, Sir Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, 52, "direct descendant of Mohammed," leader of 12,000,000 Shiite Mohammedans; and Mlle. Andre Josephine Marie Leonie Carron. 31, Parisian modiste; at Aix-Les-Bains by Playwright Henri Clerc, Mayor of Aix. Though the Aga Khan is so holy that spoonfuls of his bathwater are peddled among the faithful, he owns one of the finest racing stables in Europe, plays roulette, shoots craps. In delicate compliment to her husband, Mlle. Carron wore a wedding gown of her husband's racing colors (emerald & chocolate) banded with weasel...
...when the last Prussian troops marched out of Paris, crowds of bourgeois housewives expectorated lustily. Great bonfires of straw were burned to "purify" the Place de la Concorde. From German Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) and Coblenz the last Belgian and French troops marched out last week. There were bonfires on the Rhine hillsides, but no expectoration. Rhinelanders waited until the last troop trains had gone, then young folk danced in rain wet streets, old folk breathed an earnest Gott Sei Dank! The Second Zone of Allied Occupation was free...
Many an artist has been accused of insanity. There was the bovine Rousseau who was the laugh of Paris in his day and "Pere" Cezanne of whom the worthies of Aix said, with a shrug: "Surely he is mad." Today the sale of a Rousseau or a Cezanne is an art event. They run into five figures. America had Blakelock, painter of dark, glowing Indian encampments, who was committed to an insane asylum and kept in for the greater part of his life. It is well for the Fauves* of Paris that solicitous friends and relatives never sought court injunctions...
...opus is a sort of chant for four men's voices with piano accompaniment. Its title is Capital, Capitals. It is supposed to represent a conversation among the four capitals of Provence-Aix, Aries, Avignon and Beaux-and according to Composer Thomson "is not about anything any more than any pleasant conversation is about anything...
Excerpts from the Stein text: Did he and his wife and his sister expect to eat little birds. Little birds least of all. All the capitals that begin with A. Aix Aries and Avignon. Those that begin with be Beaux. That makes four. These that begin with B. Barcelona. Those that begin with M. Marseilles and Mallorca. You mean Palma. Yes P. Palma da Mallorca. . First Capital: Egypt. Second Capital: Rabbit. Third Capital: Fingering. Fourth Capital: Ardently silk. Fourth Capital: Spontaneously married. Third Capital: Camel's hair. Second Capital: Eider Down. First Capital: Chenille...