Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Stavisky was in the habit of putting up from time to time for rush loans. During the week two men closely connected with the case attempted to commit suicide. Scrabbling through the Stavisky correspondence, investigators discovered a letter to Stavisky with the salutation "Cher Monsieur et Bon Ami-", supposed to have been written by Henri Hurlaux, assistant prosecuting attorney of the Court of Appeal. White-chinned old Henri Chéron, Minister of Justice, promptly removed good Friend Hurlaux who struck an attitude and attempted to swallow poison. He was rushed to a hospital where he signed a statement...
...began to paint as relaxation from clerking in an importing firm. In 1900 he went to Paris, studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under pompous Père Léon Joseph Bonnat. In 1905, he saw for the first time Henri Matisse's canvas Luxe, calme et volupté. "Confronted by that picture," he said, "I understood all the new reasons for painting." He immediately joined the famed Matisse group (Derain, Braque, Rouault, Vlaminck, Friesz), became one of Matisse's most brilliant disciples. Now he lives in a Montmartre apartment painted the same blue he often...
...Manhattan publisher, who was there as official representative of the New York Ladies of Charity. Pope Pius XI was borne in, amid cheers, on his high scdia gcstatoria. Gravely he presided over the lengthy canonization ceremony. Then in reply to thrice-repeated petitions the Holy Father pronounced: "Decernimus et definimus. . , . We decree and define that Blessed Louise de Marillac, widow of Antoine le Gras, is a saint." St. Louise de Marillac was born of a noble family in 1591 in Paris. Married to Antoine le Gras, secretary to Queen Marie de Medici, she became a mother at 22, a widow...
SACRIFICE-Norah C. James-Covici, Friede ($2.50). Novel of suburban realism by the British author of Sleeveless Errand, Jealousy, et...