Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth." He was commissioned to make a monument for Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris. He furnished a "symbolic figure." The Prefecture of Police and the cemetery authorities interfered- hung a large bronze fig leaf on the statue. A few nights later, when Epstein was sitting in the Cafe Royal, a student marched in wearing the bronze fig leaf around his neck. He made a statue Venus, "an arrangement of planes and curves," also heroic -10 or 12 ft. high. It was exhibited in the Leicester Galleries, London, and for weeks people gathered in front of it and roared...
...Petronius is attracted to a boot-legging cafe which has already been raided once and to a orgiastic dancing club where whites and negroes mingle, it is not necessary for him to lug his weaknesses into print. These faults in literary taste are exactly those which another reviewer in commenting soundly on "Wild Asses" and "Wild Marriage" scored, and they are far from being characteristic of the Bookshelf as a whole. Frederick deW Pingree...
Last week, an exhibition of the paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec was held in the Wildenstein Galleries, Manhattan. Between the years 1880 and 1890, this artist was often pointed out by habitues of the Moulin Rouge Cafe, Paris, to friends from out of town; a whisper passed from Parisian mouth to Provincial ear. Amazement, incredulity, re-assertion...
Chief of the modern Macedonians who have demanded autonomy have been Todor Alexandrov, General Protogerov, Peter Schankev. For years, this triumvirate kept the Macedonian question well before the world. A few months ago, Todor Alexandrov was murdered; and last week one Dimitri Stefanov met Peter Schankev in a cafe at Milan, fired five shots from an automatic pistol at him, killed him. The two deaths were connected by the tale which the assassin told...
...Paris, as in many other parts of France, particularly in Alsace and Lorraine, the religious question (TIME, Sept. 8) is a favorite topic for conversation. Men, and sometimes women, gather at their favorite cafe and after a preliminary garçon, une fine champagne, or un bock, s'il vous plaît, they lean forward over their tables and start the conversation with: Qu'est-ce que se passe en Alsace Lorraine; qu'est-ce que se passera? Herriot, que va-t-il faire...