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...jury demanded to hear testimony from Pierre Laval. Both prosecution and defense objected. Presiding Judge Pierre Mongibeaux decided: "Nobody will understand if we do not hear Laval now. . . . I would like to see the Marshal, who was only a piece of bric-a-brac in Laval's hands, brought face to face with his 'evil genius...
This was Lalique glass-the expensive, ubiquitous, famed bric-a-brac of the 19203. The flashiest examples brought from $3,000 to $12,000. Two factories in France, equipped with every modern mechanical device, fed Lalique glass to an eager world. A sleek shop on Paris' rue Royale was a mecca to droves of cashheavy U.S. tourists (a U.S. businessman once hurried to the shop in search of an idea for a catsup bottle...
...Washington on a business trip. As a close friend, he was at Truman's side from the minute he took over in the White House. It was Good Friend Ed McKim who, when the Trumans moved from their apartment to Blair House, gathered up their bric-a-brac, rode on a truck with it to the White House...
...settings are excellent: this is the New York of the early century without the dependence on costume with which Hollywood is so often content. So many of these period pieces are in technicolor, with gala balls and sparkling lights. "Experiment Perlious emphasizes plush and bric-a-brac furnishings of the claustrophobic New York houses that graced the day and are in many cases still standing; in this respect it excels its cinematic model, "Gaslight...
...their members are under his control until committed to action. Although Goebbels holds the imposing title of Reich Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort, in that role the little man is simply Himmler's assistant, a sort of glorified collector of old clothes, hardware and bric-a-brac for the Army...