Word: andree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Wiegler, German biographer of the fashionable(Lytton Strachey-Andre Maurois) school, gives, not annotated footnotes to historical figures, but dramatic glimpses of human beings.
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...
"Please put no words into my mouth," begged Prime Minister Andre Tardieu, onetime political lieutenant of Clemenceau, as he issued from a last homage to his chief at 3 a. m. "All that I have to say is that in Death he lies magnificent and calm."
A year later when Pavlowa returned to Indianapolis, Ruth was taken to see her, did a toe-dance of her own composition. Pavlowa saw talent and beauty of face and body. She spoke encouragingly, advised Mrs. Page to take Ruth to Chicago to study during the summer with the Pavlowa...
There were 47 works by French painters and sculptors, two by French poets, one by a dressmaker.* With the exception of Pablo Picasso, almost every famed name in modern French painting was represented. Henri Matisse saw Lani in three lines, Andre Derain painted her very swarthily, Haim Soutine as a...