Word: andr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. André Maurois in-itroduces Author Green as "the best novelist of his generation." Others have declared him Balzacian, and murmured of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, for his uncanny realism is not of the modern self-conscious variety. Master of detail-heavy odor of wistaria over the garden wall, crunch of wheels on the gravel, pebbles shaping the brook into a plaited pattern-no single word is superfluous, and each image blends into an unforgettable whole...
Briand, Minister of Public Instruction Edouard Herriot, Minister of Marine Georges Leygues, Minister of Public Works André Tardieu, Minister of Commerce Maurice Bokanowksi, and Minister of Pensions Louis Marin...
Champions. Astute M. André Geraud, famed as Pertinax, leading Parisian journalist-oracle, has said of the present election: "Socialism would appear to be the principal issue . . . or rather, the battle will be fought between the uncompromising opponents of socialism and the people who halfway disapprove...
...anti-socialist ranks include Prime Minister Poincaré, erudite Minister of Justice Louis Barthou, and smart, facile Minister of Public Works André Tardieu. A swing by the electorate to these men and their supporters would mean the definite retention in office of M. Poincaré and the consecration of his policies...
...What is this 'Pertinax' like?" wondered, last week, admirers of the President. Friends of Editor André ("Perttinax") Géraud were quick to recall him as an active, married man, possessing no children and but one flourishing, likeable dog. Scarcely a statesman in Europe is too potent to be conscious whether he has just been praised or blamed by "Pertinax's" trenchant, independent pen, and most Great Men are careful to recognize him with a nod or smile, when he inevitably appears to cover any European event of first political importance...