Word: bedel
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...Less agile than Acrobat Frees was A. L. Bedel, built like the beer barrels he formerly inspected for the U. S. Government. To attract crowds he hired "The Great Chandu," a magician. A Chandu come-on: to tear up a picture of a bass, unfold the torn bits to exhibit an intact picture of a bigger bass, and announce: "If you like this trick, vote for Bedel instead of the fish...
...Pulitzer prize meant $1,000 to Julia Peterkin, the Liberty prize 50 times as much to Fannie Hurst. In Europe, when savants awarded the great Goncourt prize to Author Bedel for this book he received a measure of immortality and 5,000 francs...
...Author Bedel has a droll vivacity all his own. When his Bolivian Planter Cortes, newly rich, buys up the old estate of Fontecreuse in Touraine (southern France ?the Contes Drolatiques country), he installs an elevator, removes a Gobelin tapestry which interferes with the acoustics of his Negro saxophonist, and engages a Russian Count to preside over his kitchen. The Count is Molinoff, a person of glamor. Molinoff forgets he is cook, remembers only he is count. He spends a few stolen hours every day with Anne and Françoise, young daughters of a neighboring poor-but-proud royalist family...
Example of Author Bedel's style (description of a fat lady in distress): "The gelatine of her neck quivered, and her hand, describing a vast detour, arrived at her throat...