Word: douceur
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...Rodin, Bourdelle and Degas in old age - achieved the same vitality of surface and gesture. One can hardly imagine more joy communicated by the act of squeezing clay, and though Matisse's sculpture has had little effect on later artists, it still remains an exquisite testament to the douceur de vivre that he strove all his life to bring into form...
...marroniers soon to blossom in Paris, the sweet fragrance along the Seine and how the cafes along the Champs Elysees or the Kurfurstendam are putting up their awnings again. The lament of the Eliot House cognoscenti or the bread-cheese-and wine continental wanderers at the Bick for the douceur de vie is especially plaintive as Harvard thaws...
...League politics. Attempting tc give Italy her promised free hand in Ethiopia, he has also acted as an Honest Broker in attempting to manacle that hand and giving the League its first taste of real power by applying sanctions. Regaining his Senate seat twice over, securing a comforting douceur from Great Britain in the shape of a promise of aid in the event of a Nazi invasion, maintaining the League's face above rumors of gentlemen's agreements, Italian reprisals and serious armed Fascist threats at home, 1931's Man of the Year stood almost an even...
...well-clad and suave Harvard student now dines in a splendid cathedral room sixty feet broad by one hundred and forty-nine feet long and measuring eighty feet to the roof. The students' wants are attended to by colored waiters, who can always be bribed by a little douceur. The sunlight falls through 'storied windows richly dight,' and stains with Iris the snowy linen of fifty tables. On six courses dines the aesthetic Harvard man; and he often feels disposed to grumble at destiny if his pocket-book will not permit him to indulge in such extras as fresh salmon...
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