Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Characters are a set of bohemian rapscallions of both sexes who infest a pension in Paris and call themselves the Barbarians. Ready for anything, especially a change of scene or conversation, they flit en masse to the Riviera, where they continue to astound the bourgeois with their wisecracks and giddy japes, indulge in a few harmless bedroom scenes, fall in & out of love, flit back to Paris again and continue their galvanic act until their stage manager's timely curtain. Samples of their epigrammar: "Two gongs don't make a rite." An engagement "is exactly like giving...
...well-dressed European gentlemen of all extractions slipped into Cannes on the Riviera last week, put up at Le Carlton and went about together as inseparably and discreetly as the senior class of a divinity school. One night their limousines purred over to Nice where they attended the Opera en masse. Another day they went for a ride as far as Menton, alighted and strolled about two & two, discussing the affairs of Krupp, Schneider, Vickers, Skoda...
...quiet remark by Sir John Simon that Hitler was "suffering from the cold he caught in the Saar," evoked hearty English mirth, painful when reported to inferiority-complexed Nazis. Next Sir John let it be known that Etonianly elegant Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden would pass Berlin by en route to confer with the Government of Poland and the Government of Russia...
Obviously the right of disagreement, which is exercised by the editors of the "Student News," extends also to its readers. Those who assume that Harvard students "en masse" will accept the Marxist doctrine under the stimulus of four pages of weekly propaganda simply question the validity of individual judgment and therefore the theory of Democracy--in short, they state a belief that would be far more acceptable to Josef Stalin or Benito Mussolini than to Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln...
...Hackett's Francis will not seem a lead-wrapped effigy, the stiffly antiquated memorial of a far-off day. Pat and proper to modern ears comes the comment of one of his courtiers, as Francis lay dying: "The old sport is passing out!" ("Le vieux gallant s'en...