Word: enfante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cold-sober in Philadelphia, His Excellency ably lashed the Great Powers thus: "There is a tendency to look down upon Japan as un enfant gāté [spoiled child] who may run amuck at any moment. The argument too often falls upon Japanese ears in this manner: If we have the ratio of 10, we will always behave, but if you [Japan] have more than 6 or 7 it is highly probable that you will go astray.' Does not that sound too much like asserting moral superiority? It is something which Japanese susceptibility cannot tolerate. It is something...
...fourth concert you may have been undisputed on this point, but at that performance, on Friday evening, May 11, the untainted record of the German bandmaster's son was spoiled. It was while Lucrczia Bori was singing Debussy's "Recitative and Aria of Lia," from L'Enfant Prodigitc, that Mr. Stock's hitherto intact baton went sailing in three pieces from his passionate grasp into the ranks of the scraping violinists, one fragment just barely missing a plunge down the low back of the diva's gown. Mr. Stock, unaccountably prepared for the emergency, picked...
...Prefect of Police he became the complete boulevardier. From his little office on the Ile de la Cité with its hideous blue wallpaper he started a slashing campaign against reckless taxi drivers and the vendors of filthy pictures. He calls everyone either mon petit or mon enfant, wears made-to-order shoes with two-inch heels and has won the adoration of the uniformed force. He has also become very rich, owns a chateau and a racing stable...
...resolution is in no wise ot be taken as a reflection on either Drinker or the Collins Company, it is too obvious that as the University, retreating from the melee, determines to forestall a similar abuse, it is at the same time making a final pass at the enfant terrible...
...Dana "03 in an article on Walter Hasenclever says, "Walter Hasenclaver is the 'enfant terrible, or perhaps we should say rather the 'bad boy,' of German dramatists. Since the death of the terrible Wedekind, there has been no playwright so disturbing to German complacency as this small, keen, dynamic Hasenclaver, with his terrifying piercing eyes. . . .The sensationalism of Hasenclaver is hardly important enough to demand very serious consideration abroad, yet the originally and the daring of his plots which have stirred so much discussion in Europe deserve more attention than they have received in America...