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Meantime in the gay French metropolis fierce gendarmes with black, twirled mustachios and bright clanking swords, sat meekly, puzzled, over little books of English Made Easy. "Ah, how fine it would be to tell a U. S. legionnaire, who had enquired, 'Ou est Place Pigalle?' 'Straight ahead, buddy...
...bloom by the male organ in the flower. Would it not be of more importance to a journal like TIME, catering to people of some intelligence, to have such a simple, fundamental fact stated correctly, than to parade a lot of French kindergarten phrases, such as "c'est les fraises maudites" "tout Paris," "les dames Ameriquaines" etc.? I am keeping tab on you out of sheer love and hope for your artistic success. (Any damn fool can make money.) Dropped lines seem to be chronic with you now. That kind of "dropsy" is worse than your competitor...
...Briand's physicians endeavored to persuade him that he had contracted a different sort of rash (herpes zoster), but he insisted: C'est les fraises maudites!" ("It is those cursed strawberries...
...Gallo family's assurance of his recovery from recent illness. He raps for attention quite oblivious of the incongruity of his command. Some of the musicians follow his baton with flashes of pride, for they too are Gallos, and this Gallo boy is the world's young est conductor. On May 14, he will give a public performance in the Engineering Society Auditorium in Manhattan. Few composers, conductors, instrumentalists and singers have achieved mature fame but were "child prodigies" to start with. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed talent at 4, genius (in public) at 6, which was Josef Hofmann...
...Story.* A blocky little figure whose slightly protruding eyes and lower lip are redeemed from plainness by an ample brow and roguish smile, born in 1706, becomes sentient about 1718. He is the young- est of a Massachusetts chandler's 17 children; cheerful, robust, precocious. He dares let himself be towed across a pond by his kite. He reads Locke, Defoe and the Spectator?authors of the Age .of Reason ?besides Pilgrim's Progress and Plutarch. His publisher-brother is jailed for sensational articles in the New England Courant. Aged 17, the apprentice printer and anonymous author...