Word: clat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dancing are enthusiastic about her. One appraisal: "She's a hell of a girl-real zing!" Speculation on her possible marriage is widespread in Britain. Current favorite: the Marquess of Blandford ("Sonny"), eldest son of the Duke of Marlborough; Sonny wears a tophat with as much éclat as his father brings to catching raspberries in his mouth (TIME...
Until the occupation, Picasso's politics, though pretty vague, were rather revolutionary than Stalinist. Obviously his formal party entry was long planned and delayed till the eve of the opening of the Salon d'Automne in order to make the maximum éclat...
...Munich last month the Nazis and Japs were clasped in a tender esthetic embrace. Nazi Playwright Curt Langenbeck had adapted the most famed of Japanese dramas, The 47 Rōnin, which was produced with considerable care and éclat. To the opening of Treue (Loyalty) went Gauleiter Giesler and other Nazi party officials to welcome the representatives of "our great ally," Japanese Ambassador Oshima, Japanese Minister Sakuma...
...volunteers, with almost no experience of revolvers, took to firing them in any direction, used them to kill flies. In most camps the soldiers did not think it necessary to dig latrines. Said one bored volunteer, eying the national capital: "Hardly worth defending, except for the éclat of the thing." On payday hell broke loose. Some Zouaves, refused admittance to Julia Deane's bordello, fired pistols at Inmate Nelly Mathews, "who pluckily returned their fire...
...coup d'clat is considered the gravest diplomatic setback Germany has suffered since the war began. Jugoslavia's choice now is said to lie between complete neutrality--if that is possible--and collaboration with Britain. Even Jugoslav neutrality would afford Britain marked advantages