Word: bon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bon mot is always welcome, particularly when it is appropriate, and a modicum of merde when skillfully handled imparts a zest to TIME'S fine flavor. However, it seems improbable that Jean Boewet [TIME, May 10], contemplating the "experts with briefcases," could have employed the immortal expletive of Cambronne...
...quarter of a century, the Societe du bon parler franc.ais has been battling the encroachment of English. Each year it bombards French Canadians with 100,000 blotters, bearing exhortations to keep their speech pure. Students among the 27,000 members pay a one-cent fine to fellow members who catch them in solecisms...
...Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel: "An hour of original music in a lunatic asylum." On Edvard Grieg: his music gave "the charming and bizarre sensation of eating a pink bon-bon stuffed with snow." On Richard Wagner: "His impunity as a despot almost excused his imperturbable vanity." Debussy admitted that Wagner had his points: the music of Parsifal is "incomparable and bewildering, splendid and strong...
...shelled $339,000 off the picture's "nut," without sacrificing the essentials of the story. Loew agreed to stay in. In September, So This Is New York finally went into production-and came out $30,000 under the final budget. Even silent Stan Kramer got off a bon mot: "Now we can put our ulcers in escrow...
...Bon Voyage. In Liverpool, England, determined Traveler George Smith belatedly learned about British export laws, auctioned off at the pier his car and a greyhound, then learned that he could not take his earnings out, gave away his auction money...