Word: au
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France laughed au nez ("hee-hawed") when fiery M. Leon Daudet, editor of the hysterically Royalist newspaper L'Action Francaise was recently released from prison (TIME, July 4) by a faked telephone order supposed to have come from a member of the august "Sacred Union Cabinet" of Premier Raymond Poincaré. Since that merry escapade every policeman in France has received the order "Arrest M. Leon Daudet on sight"-but Daudet has managed to conceal his whereabouts. Therefore a sensation burst last week, at Paris, when it was announced that Editor Daudet would positively address a Royalist audience...
...worked with brush and palette at Port-au-Prince, painting in the streets, his models picked from among passersby, Artist Perfielieff became conscious that his work aroused not merely interest but indignation. What Metropolitan critics Would see as dazzling, grotesque or smartly degenerate the Haitians saw as libels on themselves. Finally the editor of Le Novelliste (Port-au-Prince) thundered: "If there existed a leper settlement, or sanitarium for paralytics, it is certain that this painter would probably go there in search of Haitian specimens. We suspect him of being one of those floating timber revolutionists that Russia has scattered...
...Where did you get them?' And when he heard-il bondit de 1'abime de désespoir au pinnacle de bonheur, and became perfectly bombastic and triumphant, as the Savior of his Country. . . . You see, he is a poet; Morgan is a poet...
They tarried in Manhattan on their way to Washington. Manhattanites remarked that President Quezon was a cafe-au-lait replica of their small, garrulous Irish Mayor, James J. Walker. The likeness is more than skin-deep. Just as Mayor Walker is "Jimmie" to the Manhattan millions, President Quezon is "Manny" to the Filipinos and Filipinas. He has an extraordinary flair for popularity. Perhaps it is the Spanish blood in his veins that makes him an impassioned demagogue. He fought with Aguinaldo in the Insurrection, governed a province, served 10 years in Washington as Resident Commissioner and burns...
Charles Moravia, writing from the Penitentiary of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in your issue of Aug. 15, states that his letter was smuggled out. "That's Haiti under American rule," states this Negro editor of Le Temps...