Word: docteur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discoverer of a new dish is worthier of esteem than the discoverer of a new star. -Brillat Savarin. To the triumphs of French cuisine was added officially, last week, a discovery called L'Intrasauce. The beaming discoverer, Monsieur le Docteur Gauducheau was clapped, cheered and feted, at Paris, by 150 gourmets banqueting under the auspices of La Societe d'Acclimatisation (French National Society of Acclimatization). This august body, unique, is devoted to popularizing in France new or outlandish products, processes, animals, or plants which seem to possess authentic merit. Last week the blushing and bowing discoverer of intrasauces...
...Sucettes." Meanwhile the Deputies continued their incredibly fatuous byplay. M. le Docteur Adolphe Pinard, Professeur a la Faculté de Médecine, Membre de l'Academie de Médecine, Officier de la Legion d' Honneur, Dean of the Chamber, arose and literally diverted his peers with a baby's "comforter." Said he in a fine burst of oratory: "For two years-two years!- have striven for the opportunity which is now mine. During that time and for years previously many of the infants of France have teethed upon a vile form of rubber nipple attached...
Although the committee has been reading modern French plays for the past two weeks no choice has been definitely made for the coming production. At the present time it seems very likely that either "Docteur Knoch", or "Le Monde ou L'on Sennuie" will be chosen. The committee has differed upon the relative merits of these two plays, but a decision will doubtless be reached by the end of this week...
...Author. M. Andre Maurois was born in Normandy, and until after the War he had no opportunity for writing. He celebrated his literary freedom with Les Silences du Colonel Bramble, which received a stupendous reception for a first novel. Then followed Les Discours du Docteur O'Grady and Ni Ange Ni Bete. But his Ariel surpasses all, and M. Maurois has been well called "worthy disciple of Lytton Strachey...
Professor Legouis is an Agrege d'Anglais of the University of Paris, having won this distinction in 1885. In 1896 he further secured the degree of Docteur-es-Lettres at the University of Paris. In 1897 he was appointed Professor at the University of Lyons. Since 1904 he has been Professor of the English Language and Literature at the University of Paris or Sorbonne. He was Exchange Professor of English at Harvard for the year from...