Word: die
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...about-town," Proust intended something different and bigger. Though his first two books (Portraits de peintres, Les plaisirs et les jours) were comparatively slight, attracted little attention, he was always taking notes for his Big Book, eventually filled 20 huge notebooks with material. After his beloved mother died in 1905, Proust retired from society, set to work in earnest. In his famed cork-lined (soundproof) room he lived, an invalid-recluse, for the remaining 17 years of his life, occasionally venturing out again into society to verify a point in his reminiscential writing, often summoning his fashionable friends to question...
...Glasgow, born, raised and resident in Richmond, Va., hotbed of Southern tradition, decided she would not be a romantic, sentimental Southern belle-lettriste. She announced: ''What the South needs now is?blood and irony." Plump, lively, slightly deaf, she finds life agreeable and amusing. Though she thought she could die of happiness if her first book was accepted, after her 17th was published she remarked: "I've never been happy and have not died." Authoress Glasgow lives in an old house in the heart of Richmond at No. i West Main Street, entertains there her friends James Branch Cabell, Mary...
Formidable Frau Tony Sender, 43, Reichstag Deputy and member of the Social Democratic party, is one of the best known women politicians in Germany. Recently an opponent referred to her in debate as Die Sexappealische Fräulein. Sex-appeal is a fighting word to Spinster Sender. She immediately sued for slander. Last week three white-cravatted Berlin judges rendered their decision: It is no slander in the German Reich to accuse a lady of possessing sex appeal, "but the expression is infelicitous and not in very good taste...
...unmistakably Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, gracious, able editrix-in-chief of the three Vogues published in Manhattan, London, Paris. The drowsy blonde in the broadcloth beret (for ladies "this side of thirty") at the opposite side of the group was surely Nancy Hale Hardin, author of The Young Die Good, staff member of Vogue for four years. At Mrs. Chase's left, representing "the stretch between youth and middle age," was Mrs. Emma Vogt Ives, Vogue's associate fashion editor, sister of Actor Louis Calhern, in a square-crowned flat sailor with quill. A rakish felt sailor...
Millet painted The Angelus in 1859 at Barbizon, France, which gave its name to the Barbizon school of French painting. Said he: "A peasant I am, a peasant I shall die." He saw the humble Barbizon peasants pause in their work to pray at the sound of the Angelus bell. Back in his studio, he painted the picture from memory. He sold it for $120. A French department store tycoon named Chauchard paid $150,000 for it in 1910, bequeathed it to the Louvre...