Word: armande
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...drawing near. Marguerite Gautier, propped up amid her tortured pillows, was feverishly wasting away with "consumption." To her lover Armand, from whom his stern father had parted her a year before, she wrote: "If we had lived together this year, I should not have died so soon...
...Mayer six months ago leased a choice 6,900 square feet of ground and second-story space in Madison Avenue's Hotel Carlyle, at 77th Street facing Parke-Bernet's auction headquarters. To give his gallery a really new look, Mayer called in as architects M.I.T.-educated Armand Bartos, 46, and Vienna-born Frederick J. Kiesler, 64, famed for such pioneering structures as his 1920 houses cantilevered out from masts like suspension bridges and his 1952 egg-shaped "Endless House...
...story about what it used to do when it was not chasing the enemy. It was chasing girls. The French cavalry was particularly well trained in this peacetime maneuver, and of all the young French officers none was more swift, more sure in the pursuit than Lieut. Armand de la Verne (Gerard Philipe) of the 33rd Dragoons. Cocksure he was, and one day he laid a bet he could have any woman in town within a month-put their names in a hat and take your pick...
Others of the splendid handful were a large still life by Joan Miro (donated by Armand G. Erpf), far harsher than the later, playful abstractions that made his fame, and a cheesecloth-and-plaster picture by Paul Klee (donated by Stanley Resor) entitled The Vocal Fabric of the Singer Rosa Silber. Klee's painted maze symbolized the singer by her initials alone, and her voice by the liltingly arranged vowels...
...anyone to make fun of me." "I'll do the talking, Dominici," the chief judge shouted back at him. "You just listen!" Diverting as it was, the trial did little to shed light on Dominici's guilt or innocence. Long before it was done, Goncourt Academy Playwright Armand Salacrou voiced one verdict. "I know," he said, "who is the really guilty party. It is French justice...