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Edouard Daladier fought in the trenches with much éclat. He was cited and decorated several times. Those were the days when nice young ladies "adopted" men in the service, knitted them mufflers and wrote them letters. Muscular Edouard Daladier's marraine was a Mile Laffont, daughter of a scientist. He met her on leave and married...
...Everest group surmounted the last superlative. A famed sportsman was in their midst-Lord Clydesdale. Plump Lady Houston, widow of a shipping tycoon, who underwrote the British Schneider Cup entry in 1931 (TIME, Sept. 14, 1931) gave her name and money to the expedition. Lord Clydesdale gave it éclat. Until last January he was the provisional leader. When Commodore Fellowes took command, Lord Clydesdale became Squadron Leader. He and Commodore Fellowes took turns at the reconnoissance work...
...that of Sculptor Jean-Baptiste Soitout, designed during the despotic provisional government of 1848. At that time France's ministry of the interior organized a competition for a figure to represent the Republic. Ten were submitted and Sculptor Soitout's winning bust was exhibited with much éclat in the Salon of 1850. There was some talk of ordering replicas for public buildings, but while the discussion was still going on pale Louis Napoléon abruptly ended the Second Republic with his famed whiff of grapeshot. Soitout's Marianne was hustled away to an attic. There...
...Green Hills Farms, a big, fashionable apartment hotel near city limits, went Francis A. Donaldson III, a muscular youth of 25 with considerable social èclat. He went there to try to settle a long quarrel with Horace Allen, a retired and impoverished woolen goods manufacturer, and his son Edward, 23, one of the ablest gentlemen riders in the East. Both the Donaldsons and the Aliens knew that young Donaldson and Rose Allen, 18, were lovers. Donaldson and her brother had been schoolmates at Haverford and bitterly disliked each other. As the altercation grew heated, Father Allen said afterwards. Francis...
...Payments to lodge keepers, beaters and handy men total about the same. An average sized moor costs a hunter all told about $5,000 a month for the season. That is, in Scotland. If he merely wants grouse and is willing to forego social eéclat, he may go on to the Orkneys. There he may rent a stand for as little as $300 cash or its equivalent in bottled whiskey or tobacco...