Word: armande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey smudge was included in an unsigned review of From 'Prentice to Patron, a biography of Isaiah Thomas, early U. S. printer. The undecipherable line was in a review by Lewis H. Titterton of With Napoleon in Russia, the newly-discovered memoirs of Napoleon's aide, General Armand de Caulaincourt* (TIME, Dec. 2). The line was at the end of a quotation from Napoleon which de Caulaincourt had offered as proof of the Emperor's unscrupulousness in winning allies...
...General Armand de Caulaincourt, first Duke of Vicenza, was born in Picardy in 1773, became a soldier at the age of 14, a brevetted second lieutenant at 15, a member of the National Guard during the French Revolution, was jailed as an aristocrat at 19. In the turbulent years that followed, when military careers fell to young men. he became Napoleon's aide-de-camp, was twice wounded, had seen 15 years of service at the age of 29. Two scandals darkened his life. He was unjustly suspected of responsibility for the murder of the Duke of Enghien...
...massive 59-year-old Alsatian, whose huge red, wide-eyed face looks as if it were being constantly pressed against an invisible pane of glass, Jack Curley was christened Jacques Armand Schuel, chose his present name because he has curly hair...
...Hammer Galleries boasts as its emblem the double-eagle of Imperial Russia and deals exclusively with the leftovers of the Tsarist aristocracy. It was founded by a young U. S. doctor named Armand Hammer who was so sympathetic with the Soviet experiment that he spent nine years in the U. S. S. R. Foundation of the Hammer fortune was laid by Armand Hammer's father who made a great deal of money after the War selling medical supplies to the Soviets. Armand Hammer manufactured lead pencils in Moscow, traded U. S. wheat for furs and caviar, carried...
...upon the primrose path. Just what particular gentleman is paying for her sumptuous lodgings, her lace-hung bath, and her carriage is left indefluite, but there is no doubt that all vie for the privilege. After meeting at a carnival, Marguerite Gautier (Yvonne Printemps) and her idealistic young lover, Armand Duval, escape to a cottage in the campagne. An admirable restraint marks the scene in which Armand's father persuades Marguerite to return to Paris, and the final reconciliation in which Armand finds her dying of consumption. The taint of melodrama appears only when, during the famous gambling scone, Armand...