Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love affair between Napoleon Bonaparte and Marie Countess Walewska of Poland. The notion was in the Hollywood tradition, for most producers like royal historical episodes for an important star. They give the star dignity. If dignity is its purpose, Conquest admirably succeeds. It moves with the fateful and august tread of history itself. Its huge, expensive panorama (running time: 2½ hours, cost: $2,000,000) embraces a quarter of a century and three-quarters of Europe, with the detailed perfection of one of Meissonier's Napoleonic battle-scenes. Aside from being a little dull, the picture has only...
...ambulance was delivered to the Medical Bureau and paid for on the 26th of July, a down payment having been made earlier. It was shipped from New York on August 14, the first consignment of ambulances sent to Spain since June...
...meantime, the Medical Bureau was invited to participate in an anti-war parade sponsored by the League Against War and Fascism to be held on August 7. The executive committee of the Medical Bureau voted to accept the invitation, sending ambulances and a doctor to speak in the name of the Bureau at the parade. As a result the Harvard ambulance did indeed appear in the parade. Seven days later it was sent to Spain...
...recipients of these scholarships will enter the School to take the first-year course of study which continues until August 17. If their work has been satisfactory they will be eligible to enter the regular second-year work in September and graduate the following June...
...York Times, an august and dignified daily rivals the London Times in accuracy, completeness and austerity. General Motors Corporation, too, prides itself upon the calm, quiet, proper manner in which it conducts its advertising and the absence of the "girl appeal" motive from its promotional schemes...