Word: andre
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight Carnegie prizes, and did it with a true melting-pot flourish. Second prize went to Yasuo Kuniyoshi; second, third and fourth honorable mentions to Raphael Soyer, Aaron Bohrod and Ernest Fiene, U. S. artists all, though only Brook and Bohrod are native-born. Russian Marc Chagall, Spanish Mariano Andréu and Parisian Maurice Brianchon, who all paint in France, won the three remaining prizes...
...Commissariat of Information were such pillars of French letters as Paul Claude), the Roman Catholic poet and onetime Ambassador to the U. S., and Paul Valery, who presented the first wartime performance of the Comedie Fran-Qaise. André Maurois took a post in the censorship under Jean Giraudoux (TIME...
Between 15 and 19, Arthur Rimbaud wrote poetry whose slashing irony and pure music still influence poets. At 19 he wrote Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell), an obscure, agonized hodgepodge in which Rimbaud addicts* trace the wrestlings of his André Gide-like puritanism with his André Gide-like passions. But from then until he died, at 37, in a Marseille hospital, Arthur Rimbaud never wrote again. This amazing break with his genius, his lone-wolf prowlings through the lower depths of Europe, his gunrunning in Africa and Asia form a vague, provoking literary legend...
...Mussolini has many times emphatically, indignantly denied. Nevertheless, last week's pressures by Britain and France were in precisely that direction, and they were truly great pressures. Count Ciano's Foreign Office became almost the full-time habitat of British Ambassador Sir Percy Loraine and French Ambassador André François-Poncet...
...French writer André Gide once sourly said: "It is impossible to imagine a Frenchman reaching middle age without getting syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor...