Word: alphand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of the throng went especially to hear Claude Alphand sing. She is a beautiful, blonde, rather waxwork-like Frenchwoman who accompanies her balladry on the guitar. Rated by many as the best French chanteuse since Yvette Guilbert and Lucienne Boyer, she sings with a feline throatiness and great stylistic elegance. Her favorite song...
Prenez le bonheur quand il passe-Alphand's delivery of such sentiments makes her worth $750 a week to the Blue Angel's Jacoby...
...Chamber was called to order, as custom provides, by its most aged member, M. Georges Lévy-Alphandéry, 78. While the Deputies listened to his quavering and cackling the seven Reds took their seats unobtrusively. When old Lévy-Alphandéry asked the Chamber to rise "in homage to the armed forces of France," three rose but four kept their seats. "Throw them out!" shouted the Deputies...
...have no authority to expel anyone," quavered old Lévy-Alphandéry. At that the Socialists, former allies of the Communists in the United Front-next to whom they sit at the Chamber's left-grabbed the four Reds who would not stand and tossed them...