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...June 29). They got an equally surprising picture last week of the artist's life in war-torn France. Painter of the picture, done in the gayest of colors, was famed Dadaist Marcel Duchamp, whose Nude Descending A Staircase was the hottest artistic cause célèbre...
...State penitentiary at Richmond, Va., young Odell Waller awaited death this week by electrocution. A Negro sharecropper, guilty of murdering a white man, Waller would have died long since if his case had not become a cause célèbre...
...whom most of the world believed innocent, Tom Mooney grew famous; he was labor's international cause célèbre. When he was finally pardoned in 1939, after 22 years, a caravan of 200 automobiles followed him from prison to San Francisco; he walked bareheaded leading "a great labor parade, spoke to thousands from a platform at City Hall. Parents held up their children to see Tom Mooney...
...Bre-ke-ke-kex, co-ax, co-ax--Go to h--, you bums--Victory for Yale-Yeh, Victory for old Eli-To h--, you bums...
Anyway, that is the gist of what each Eli says when he gives the Long Cheer, for in Aristo phones' "The Frogs" the frogs yell at the people going to the underworld. "Bre-ke-ke-kex," which translated into American vernacular means "Go to h--, you bums." At the same time, the bre-ke-ke-kex is the three staccato dots and the long dash which stand for "V" for Victory." --From the Yale News...