Word: dreyfuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live in unbarred exile. Only a handful of the most desperate prisoners are actually confined on Devil's Island, one of the three "Safety Islands" off the Guiana Coast. Devil's Island's fame originated largely from the fact that it was there that Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was imprisoned for four and one-half years. Since the days of Dreyfus, interest in Guiana and the plight of its jungle-bound, fever-ridden convicts has never diminished. To novelists and cinema producers it has been a boon.* Agitation for the abolition of the penal colony has steadily grown...
...Alfred Dreyfus was the best-known prisoner ever to be confined on Devil's Island, the best-known fugitive is a gaunt, grizzled onetime French newshawk named Rene Belbenoit, who in 1921 broke into the Chateau de Bel AH near Paris and stole the necklace of the Countess of Entre-meuse. Sentenced to Guiana for eight years at hard labor, he escaped and was recaptured four times. He met Novelist Blair Niles on her visit to the colony. She was able to glean from his story enough material for two books which made them both famed...
...another raise; and 2) to start looking for a house "as the Bank could not approve of your settling in furnished rooms." Two months later manly Mr. Notman announced his intention to marry, was instantly fired, and last week seemed well on his way to become an heroic Captain Dreyfus of British banking as the Notman affair grew in notoriety and British bank guilds strove to get him back his job with right...
...Fogg an imaginary portrait head, the gift of Mr. Grenville L. Winthrop '86 of New York City. It represents a type of small bronze, little known in this country but prominent in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and in older private collections such as the Morgan, or the Dreyfus Collection...
...candidates out of her grab-bag. One is a childhood desire to be included in the glorious goings-on of a large but mythical family of Rectory Children. One is a sturdy feminine contempt for what she dubs the Peter Pannery of the typical Englishman. And one is the Dreyfus Case, which fascinated her not only because she was a Jew but because she was a young contemporary of its long-drawn-out events. When the three lines of her association-autobiography have crossed, the King Charles's head she finds in the resultant triangle is - rather...