Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they will probably pay for the lives of those who put them in prison while they negotiated surrender. . . . One might compare their lot to that of a bull, worn out by picadors, helplessly waiting for the matador to enter with a fanfare of trumpets to give it the coup de grâce. This war, which has been incredibly cruel on all sides since its commencement two-and-a-half years ago, seems likely to end in an orgy of cruelty...
...Tower came from America, where a similar structure was proposed for the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. Parisians jeered at Engineer Gustave Eiffel's "monster of the imagination," predicted that it would fall down. Alexandre Dumas, fils, called it a "horror." Because of "this torturing, inevitable nightmare," Guy de Maupassant fled the capital. M. Eiffel smiled, gave his personal fortune to finish the Tower, after Government funds ran out when it was one-fourth completed. The Tower attracted nearly two million cash customers in its first year, brought its builder wealth and made him an officer in the Legion...
...week to Poland), foreign military men were apt to ask embarrassing questions about the size of the British Army. France long ago let it be known that she was interested in getting British cannon fodder as well as British cannon. What Napoleon, Tsar Nicholas I and Boer General Christian De Wet all failed to force Britain to do, Adolf Hitler may yet accomplish...
...handsome Lewis Herold Brown. Last week, at a luncheon celebrating his tenth year as president, the J-M Officers Board (a management group as opposed to the ownership group which forms the board of directors) gave him a gift symbolizing his success in building up J-M esprit de corps-a gold locket containing pictures of his associates. Three days later at the annual stockholders' meeting J-M owners added their stamp of unanimous approval...
...were the trade editions he designed during his 17 years with Houghton Mifflin's Riverside Press. More concrete is his influence on such disciples as Milton Click, chief designer for Viking Press, whose books are among the most attractive now published. "B. R." is not particularly interested in de luxe editions as such. Of his 400-odd books, he himself owns less than 75, few of the expensive ones...