Word: cour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris all agog, the artist has exhibited rarely. Last week's show was his first in the U. S. A slight, dark-haired man with a pale, pointed face and sharp eyes, Balthus is married to a Swiss girl, lives in a studio apartment on Paris' Cour de Rohan. He is a close friend of Author Andr éGide and, in spite of his frightening portrait, admires André Derain above all modern artists...
Momentous to every mistress in France last week was an unexpected decision by the country's highest court, La Cour de Cassation. Its sprightly old men, who would be considered insipid and absurd if they did not keep their own quota of mistresses, found on their calendar in a single day three cases of the same type: a master has died in an accident, and his wife and children and mistress are seeking justice. The mistress produces to the court letters from her late master, rent receipts, paid grocery bills and other evidence establishing that...
Between the acts there will be piano playing by Al Le Cour...
...Will science tell us to eat less, as it has told us to drink less? "Eighty percent of our deaths are due to overeating. After the age of 21 a large variety and quantity of food is unnecessary. All those things crowd the stomach and cause poisons. It takes cour age to learn restraint, but all that eating is unnecessary...