Word: felicien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doctors agree that absinthe, bad for men, is definitely worse for women. A famed and horrible exhibit in Europe is Buveuse d'Absinthe, painted by Belgium's late great Felicien Rops (1833-98) and showing a girl in the sodden stage of an absinthe drunk (see cut, p. 21). Most absinthe neophytes begin by taking too much, enjoy a brief stage of exhilaration (often quarrelsome), then lapse into an absinthe stupor, followed by sleep. They wake up with a terrific pounding headache which lasts all the next day and is punctuated by fits of vomiting...
...table were the lords of copperdom: Cornelius Francis Kelley of Anaconda, which has 60% of its production outside the U. S.; Louis Shattuck Gates of Phelps Dodge whose strategies saved the conference a year ago; Stephen Birch of Morgan-linked Kennecott; James Y. Murdoch of gold & copper producing Noranda; Felicien Cattier of Africa's Katanga; Robert Crooks Stanley of Canada's International Nickel, in line for the first time; Sir Auckland Geddes of Rio Tinto and Rhokana, one-time British Ambassador at Washington. A stony silence greeted Dr. Sussman's statements that Roan's production capacity...