Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly before 9 o'clock Mrs. Van de Elst went sweeping up to the prison gate in a cream-colored limousine, shouting through a loudspeaker: "They are hanging an innocent man. We have last-minute evidence to prove it." Three loudspeaker vans were already driving back & forth blaring out "Abide With Me". A mob of 50 sandwich men paraded with signs. Mrs. Van der Elst's supreme inspiration, three airplanes zoomed above the prison, trailing banners, "Stop the Death Sentence." Promptly at 9 o'clock, the trap dropped under Murderer Brigstock. "Gentlemen remove your hats," Cried...
...only fair to get a showing in almost any dealer's private gallery. Of last week's 862 exhibits, almost without exception the only ones that had the slightest artistic merit were those contributed by President John Sloan. Abraham Walkowitz. A. S. Baylinson, Jose de Creeft and other veterans of the Independents' early days. whose sense of loyalty still compels them to send annual contributions...
...Manhattan Rotary club, War Ace Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was introduced as a winner of the Distinguished Service Cross with nine palms, the Croix de Guerre with four palms, the Congressional Medal of Honor, the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. Snorted Ace Rickenbacker: "It is true that I could come here with a chest full of medals. But I do not wear the ribbons. ... I have no respect for decorations of that kind. I respect only the awards for peacetime service...
...midst of black despair, Chopin's fortune changed. Baroness de Rothschild invited him to play at a soiree. Instantly he was Society's pet, besieged by highborn ladies who begged him to give them lessons. Then, like a villain in a play, George Sand strode into his life, flaunting her male attire, puffing at a black cigar. According to Author Murdoch, that bestselling novelist was "an odd mixture of vulture and vampire." Once a lover was discarded, she used him cruelly for copy and the disguise was thin. In 1838 Chopin and Sand acknowledged their liaison by going...
...were afraid the University had flunked this week's examination, but Maurice Chevalier surpassed himself and pulled the bill through with a high B plus. The "Folies Bergere de Paris," which, by the way, is not the "Folies Bergere" at all, is a clever farce in which the beautiful women, charming dialogue, and sure fire situations resound with a definite click. The movie has already received a favorable review in these columns and we can but pat the University on the back for billing...