Word: amours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near the edge of a precipice on the outskirts of Escragnolles in the French Riviera one day last week Albert Sauvant, 28, climbed into the cockpit of an ancient Farman biplane named Amour. The ''plane'' had neither wings nor motor.* Police had confiscated them to prevent Inventor Sauvant from doing what he proposed to do?deliberately crash, with himself in the plane, to demonstrate a shock-absorbing device which he said would save his life. Mechanics took hold of Amour (so named by Inventor Sauvant "because the experiment had become so dear to my heart''), pushed it across the field...
...once dropped a sheep and six eggs safely from 500 feet in a model of his ship (TIME, Dec. 14). Several times he tried to make the test himself but could not elude police until last week. Before undertaking his cliff dive he let a motor truck ram Amour with himself inside...
...retiring officers under whose direction "L'Amour Veille" was produced last autumn are: president, J. B. Jackson '32 vice-president, L. F. Perry '34; secretary-treasurer, Gilbert Kerlin '33, manager of productions, S. W. Burchard...
...passes small hours at his quarters, makes him blow out a holy candle burning under the ikon of a madonna. The aviator finally starts back for Russia, but his plane crashes. Miss Garbo, like all female spies in the cinema, sacrifices professional curiosity to I'amour. She kills a Russian general (Lionel Barrymore), but not until jealousy has made him give the information which leads to her painful but ennobled...
Beginning with a matinee performance on Wednesday of "L'Amour Veille" Harvard's Cercle Francais will give its annual play in French at the Elizabeth Peabody Theatre at 357 Charles Street, Boston. The players will present this French comedy also on Wednesday evening and on Thursday evening...