Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...riddle in French popular psychology was, of course, that strong nerves and shrewdness are leading French characteristics. Jean Frenchman figured that if the Reds, Pinks and Pale-Pinks-i.e., the Communist, Socialist and Radical Socialist supporters of the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps-were content to let Justice and the police take their course against sewer-jumping Royalists, then he could safely laugh...
...closing, Fraprie stated that he felt the present emphasis on stark realism in photography will swing back to something more mixed in character. Photography, he feels, should possess intellectual content as well as realism
...lines of the present Pulitzer Prizes, which are widely publicized and eagerly sought after by some journalists. Their appeal, however, is mainly to certain excellent papers already in existence, and again, it is highly problematical if such awards could actually "elevate the standards" of scandal sheets which are quite content to remain just that...
...tobacco is itself one of the best possible nicotine absorbers and because aluminum's sensitivity to temperature makes it condense the fumes quickly. Chemist Derr tried using an ordinary cigaret as a filter. He found that smoking one cigaret through another as filter eliminated 70% of the nicotine content. Count Cippico suggested using two cigarets, found that this eliminated 90%. The figures were checked and corroborated by the Mellon Institute...
...content with having resigned his Presbyterian pastorate and gone to jail in the 1919 steel strike, the late William Mann Fincke* in 1921 gave his 53-acre estate in Katonah, N. Y., with its big colonial farmhouse, to found Brookwood Labor College, first labor college in the U. S. Miss Evelyn Preston, a tall, dimpled, onetime Junior Leaguer, now president of the League of Women Shoppers (a labor auxiliary) gave the college a $50,000 women.'s dormitory. Among its other liberal and wealthy angels was the Garland Fund...