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Word: entree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Oh," says one, "je n'aime pas le cri de ces animaux." Better than Indians, says the other. By the way, says the first, you haven't seen any snakes tonight, have you? No, not tonight-"Ce sont de sales bétes, ces serpents a sonnettes. . . " At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Frenchman's U. S. | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

If 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Abscess Abolished | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Haakon can do three tours-en-l'air, 14 pirouettes, five entre-chats.* No Nijinsky, he says: "I do not like it when I am compared to Nijinsky. ... I do not think there is a dancer, no matter how good, who can do the things Nijinsky has been credited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Summer Nights (Cont'd) | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

The entre-acte diversions are well up to the standards of the production. The Barfly Quartet of Collins, Vincent, Williams and Hormell sings one or two of the old favorites including an amusing song of tender filial devotion entitled "Don't Swat Mother, 'Cause That's Mean."--a song which...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: THE D. U. | 3/15/1935 | See Source »

The entre-acte was filled by the highly amusing machinations of Vincent Palmer and his marionettes who stage the new famous fight between Gale Noyes and Charles Apted, the noted slenth. Mr. Apted's famed perceptiveness failed him upon this occasion and when Gale called his attention to his shoe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/21/1934 | See Source »

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