Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before a Lyons court stood the most famous collaborationist yet brought to trial in France-bearded, brilliant Charles Maurras, political anachronism, polemicist, poet, member of the French Academy, ex-editor of L'Action Française, and a royalist more royalist than France's Pretender, Henri VI (the exiled Henri of Bourbon-Orleans, Count of Paris). The little old man was 76 and stone deaf. All charges and questions had to be given him in writing...
...Help Singing" can't be criticized for lack of realism: that goes without saying and is not necessarily a serious flaw. But the picture wavers midway between a musical spectacle, like "Cover Girl," and a straight western in the manner of Mr. Cody's famous show; it combines the worst features of both...
Britons are given to labeling themselves with strange-sounding titles indicative of their respective towns, viz.: Oxford, Oxonian; Cambridge, Cantabrigian, which are the most famous. There are others throughout Great Britain, often piquant and quaint, like Liverpool, Liverpudlian; Blackpool, Blackpudlian, and perhaps best of all Giggleswick, Giggleswicket...
...Morgon-Tidningen to have a new ailment: ear trouble, brought on by last July's attempted assassination. Hitler's hearing, said Stockholm, is so impaired that he can "no longer judge the sound of his words, nor can he use tones of irony or contempt, or his famous false heartiness...
...Dietrich, preparing to make her Broadway debut in a play called Foolish Notion, announced that she would stand on her own two legs-though they were not as shapely nor as celebrated as her mother's. Said Maria: "I have never done anything but be born to a famous mother. ... I want to get some place by myself. . . . That is why . . . I am not interested in movies...