Word: berges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remember his being introduced by J. P. ("The Boss") Firth, a giant of a marvelous man who was the headmaster. The Boss recalled that many times he had flogged Frey-berg V.C. The hero of the Dardanelles, standing there among the begowned pedagogues, smiled wryly and rubbed the seat of his pants...
...president, 67-year-old Georges Barrère. Flutist Barrère, one of the few surviving devotees of the gaiter, the Prince Albert and the imperial beard, was brought to the U.S. by Walter Damrosch in 1905. Son of a Bordeaux grocer and alumnus of Paris' Folies-Bergère orchestra, he barnstormed every state in the Union with an organization known as the Barrère Little Symphony...
Besides miniature bananas, palm trees and pedigreed dogs, Ben has also trimmed hats with models of penguins, reindeer, Ferdinand the Bull, Red Cross nurses, Chinese coolies with water jugs, and nude "Folies-Bergère" dancers. He is already planning for the 1944 elections: hats trimmed with elephants and donkeys. But his biggest innovation for the out-of-this-world hat business is his refusal to sell any hat exclusively...
Most of the posters were theater, music-hall and circus advertisements. They formed a kind of profane Audubon collection of the night birds of Paris. A whole aviary was to be found in a unique four-paneled poster done by Choubrac for the Folies-Bergère, showing the scintillant plumage of the Folies, from the top hats in the lobby to the trapeze artists on the stage...
...Whom the Bell Tolls (Ingrid Berg man, Gary Cooper; TIME...