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...cunning, democratic King Louis Philippe, an extraordinary crime, involving a smuggler's daughter, a great prince and the royal family, shocked a France that had become thoroughly accustomed to lurid intrigues and vile conspiracies. The smuggler's daughter was Sophie Dawes, brawny, coarse, mean-tempered Englishwoman from the Isle of Wight. The prince was Louis Henri Joseph, Duc de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, who had picked Sophie up in a London brothel. She was given great estates by her lover, was received by the king, moved in the highest French society despite her lack of tact...
Died. Henri Barbusse, 62, novelist, Pacifist, Communist; of pneumonia; in Moscow, where he attended sessions of the Seventh World Communist Party Congress. Son of a French atheist and an Englishwoman, Barbusse enlisted in the War as a private, was invalided out three times, twice cited for bravery. His war book, Le Feu, won the Prix Goncourt in 1917 despite militarists who attacked its "defeatism...
...average Frenchman the mental picture of the Englishman is generally subordinate to his mental picture of the Englishwoman. The latter is not a flattering portrait. It is the picture of a thin, rather weather-beaten, extremely ill-dressed old maid, clad in sensible check garments, and threatening taxi-drivers with a green umbrella. The French portrait of the Englishman is superimposed upon this unwelcome image. It is the picture of an inelegant, stupid, arrogant, and inarticulate person with an extremely red face. The French seem to mind our national complexion more than other nations. It gets on their nerves. They...
TEMPEST OVER MEXICO?Rosa E. King ?Little, Brown ($3). Stilted but interesting reminiscences of the Zapata revolution, written by an Englishwoman who owned the largest hotel in Cuernavaca...
...three. First, Minister Uchida threw Mrs. Mayer, then she threw him. After that "they feinted and tossed and writhed and grunted for a full half hour" on the matting until Minister Uchida thoroughly subdued Mrs. Mayer and won the match. Said he gallantly: "She is the most adept Englishwoman at jujitsu I have ever...