Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years his sympathies have swerved far closer the right than they had been when the swarthy Anvergnat made his entrance into French polities. The ill-disguised reluctance with which he took steps to dissolve or even curb the "leagues," meaning chiefly that Fascist in Republican's clothing, the Criox de Feu, was not received with patience or good will by the Premier's party. In the eyes of political observers France has recently been reaching the crossroads in internal affairs, and she must now choose between Fascism or some creed skin to Socialism. Perhaps it was the mission of Laval...
...Swing," is to jazz what the poetic spirit is to poetry. Its exact definition, however, has given jazzmen many a troubled hour. Author Hugues Panassie of the classic Le Jazz Hot tentatively explains "swing" as "une sorte de balancement dans de rythme et la mélodic qui comporte toujours un grand dynamisme." To black Bandmaster Chick Webb of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, swing "is like lovin' a special girl, and you don't see her for a year, and then she comes back it's somethin' inside...
Most recent candidate, introduced in Rome by Canon Mugnier from Paris, is Anne de Guigne who "died in the odor of sanctity at the age of 11" in 1922. She was a descendant of St. Louis, King of France. The special virtue of Maria Filippetto (1912-27) was "patient suffering for the love of God." Antonito Martinez Herrera (1920-29) was known for his "humility and charity." Guy de Font-galland (1913-25), son of an aristocratic Parisian family, made his First Communion at 7, wished to become a missionary priest but believed he heard a voice say: "My little...
...passenger, headed back across the Atlantic in pursuit. Last week the Europa ran into heavy weather, arrived ten hours after the Reliance had churned off south on a round-the-world cruise. Grimly the taciturn German skipper stamped aboard the Furness Liner Eastern Prince, sailed for Rio de Janeiro, where he is scheduled to arrive the same day the Reliance is due there...
...Clair (Sous les Toits de Paris, Le Million, A Nous la Libertè) and the French film industry have been almost synonymous in most people's minds since 1930, when his first important film was an international sensation. In addition to being the only important director in France, he also wrote his own stories, chose his cast and took complete control of his productions. Long determined not to go to Hollywood, where, far from being No. 1 man in the industry, he doubted whether he would even be allowed to run his own Unit, Director Clair last autumn broke...