Word: corsican
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From Butte to Albuquerque and from Kansas City to Salt Lake-the territory claimed for the Post's 150,000 circulation-the Bonfils career is epic. Everyone knows that he boasted Corsican descent (his father, a Troy, Mo. judge, changed the name from Buonfiglio) and kinship to Napoleon. Handsome, swarthy, he quit West Point in 1881 and tried his hand at land-trading in the Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas booms. His rough-&-tumble methods brought him, if not friends, a neat pot of money with which he started a lottery in Kansas. Bonfils had taken...
...Harvard freshman. During the War he served with distinction as an aviator in France, Macedonia. Morocco, where he had time to paint a number of most effective landscapes. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor, but, a sincere Royalist, he scorns the boutonniere as a relic of the Corsican upstart Napoleon. Shortly after the War he married Delfina Edwards-Bello, beautiful daughter of a wealthy Argentine. Their town house in Paris was the former studio of the late great Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, built on the site of an ancient convent, which Artist Boutet de Monvel has redecorated...
...dusty night-court alike bewitch him. But the laws that govern men are most enticing. Horoscopes, new as they may be to Harvard, perhaps explain as well why Thou art Thou, as do the addled Viennese hiero-phants. Be that as it may, the rise of the Corsican, the fall of the Hapsburgs, even the tale of a Freshman, all are food to the Vagabond...
...Philadelphia Academy of Music stage. Koussevitzky's entrance was dignified, unflurried. Stokowski fairly flew from the wings. But then Stokowski had a longer first lap. He had the gloomy Fourth Symphony of Finnish Jan Sibelius to get through with, whereas Koussevitzky had only a trifling piece by Corsican Henri Martelli. Stokowski's pace was brisk but with odds so against him it was not surprising that Koussevitzky was ready first to start on the first U. S. performance of Maurice Ravel's new Piano Concerto...
...senatorial campaign was very expensive. Perfumer Coty lost partly be cause, misjudging the people he wished to represent, he dined publicly in Ajaccio with a Corsican bandit. In 1929 came the Wall Street crash and Publisher Coty's divorce. His two papers, the conservative Figaro and blatant Ami du Peuple, have lost money consistently. He lost more in subsidizing the unsuccessful Paris-Tokyo non-stop flight of Aviators Lebrix & Doret. The Coty perfume business has felt Depression. And last week the former Mme Coty obtained a court order forcing François Coty to pay her an additional...