Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just in the way, as the French would say- "De trop...
...elegant Paris law office young Count René de Chambrun, son of the French Ambassador to Italy, swiveled around last week to face a reporter. "Miss Elsa Sittell is very religious," said he. "She was once a choir singer in a Bronx Catholic church. She is very conscientious and it is her habit to say what she thinks. She is of a nervous temperament. "We are doing everything we can." continued Count René. "I have appealed to the French Foreign Office and to the American Ambassador...
Meanwhile 3,000 sweating coolies were finishing up the Dictator's new war base air field at Haichow, 250 miles from Shanghai. To Generalissimo Chiang's somewhat decadent henchman-in-arms "Young Marshal" Chang Huseh-liang, Boeing Airplane Co. delivered last week a superspeed, de luxe transport plane, luxuriously upholstered and bristling with chromium gadgets...
...finite were startled when he said he was no longer sure of this. But there was no particular reason for excitement on this score. Following the General Theory of Relativity (1915) Einstein erected a cosmos whose radius turned out to be 32,000,000,000 light years. But Willem de Sitter worked out a universe in which space itself was expanding independently of its matter and Hubble & Humason at Mount Wilson confirmed this expanding universe theory by actual observations. Thus Einstein's universe fell into general disfavor, without at all impairing the General Theory of Relativity. Four years...
Public response to Author Thornton Wilder has been chequered. His first book (The Cabala) was too clever to be popular. His second (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) was the best-selling phenomenon of 1927. Since then he has published a distinguished tour de force (The Woman of Andros), two collections of inconsiderable, unactable playlets (The Angel That Troubled the Waters, The Long Christmas Dinner). Carpers have accused him of being a literary showoff, say he once struck a lucky posture, will never repeat it. Communist Litterateur Mike Gold started the liveliest row the staid New Republic...