Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With French President & Mme Albert Lebrun, last week French Premier & Mme Leon Blum went one evening to Paris' now splendidly refurnished Opera to hear a concert by the London Philharmonic. As fiddles sighed and flutes tootled, there began to be furtive activity in the rear of the Presidential Box. Just in case of another French Revolution, it is equipped as a telephonic nerve centre, attuned not only to Paris but to prefectures of all France, and that night last week trouble was already brewing hot in Clichy...
...crowd was swelling to an ultimate 10,000 and something like a total of 3,000 police were moving up. Inside the Olympia about 300 Social Party members sat watching on the screen The Battle, while outside battle was already raging or about to rage. From the Opera box of the President, four miles distant, the Premier sent dashing to Clichy his Private Secretary Andre Blumel and his Minister of Interior Marx Dormoy, then sat back to listen, like the true music-lover he is, to the London Philharmonic...
...devaluation" are fading fast, and plenty of evidence had piled up in Paris that much of what Socialist Premier Blum has been doing is to attempt a series of risky experiments, however noble. Upon that record, could Finance Minister Auriol succeed in floating 104 billions in bonds? From the box of absent Speaker Edouard Herriot, who was abed with bronchitis, the Premier's charming wife, vivacious Mme Blum, decided to sit through the final Chamber debate on whether to issue the bonds. Just behind her sat the wife of Conservative Deputy Paul Bietrix, and the speech Premier Blum...
...course of the whole 129 in either set would last 16 years. Two-year-olds have a new test, consisting mainly of a box of toy objects, such as an automobile and a shoe, which they can identify by pointing and gurgling. Older children point out the larger of two balls, detect verbal and pictorial absurdities. "Superior adults" restate proverbs in their own words, fill out blanks in sentences, find antonyms...
...exceedingly favorable reviews in England, where it ran last year. A high spirited up-to-the-minute comedy in Gilbert and Sullivan style the projected play satirizes many phases of modern day life as typical of both here and abroad, including such things as Fascism, night clubs, and soap box oratory. The female parts will be handled by Radcliffe girls...