Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When France fell, many of Gide's attackers showed up on the Nazi side. Ardently anti-Nazi, Gide continued to needle his enemies in articles for the Paris Figaro. Said Britain's Novelist E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) last year: "He has remained an individualist in an age which imposes discipline. ... It seemed to us, as we listened to Gide, that here was a light which the darkness could...
Ezio Pinza, Metropolitan Opera star, took precautions against dog homesickness as he handed his Dalmatians, Boris and Figaro, over to Dogs for Defense. With the dogs, long accustomed to his house-filling basso, he sent records of their master's voice...
Soloist for the evening was Phyllis Smith (of Wellesley College) whose rendition of the "Recitative and Aria 'Dove Song'" from Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" was the highlight of the concert...
Died. Henriette Caillaux, ex-Premier Joseph Caillaux's wife, acquitted in 1914 of murdering Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro; in Département Sarthe, France. Campaigning against Caillaux, then Finance Minister, Calmette had printed a love letter Caillaux had written Henriette while he was still married to his first wife, and threatened to print more. Mme. Caillaux went to his office and shot him dead. A French jury decided there had been no premeditation, acquitted her, and precipitated a political crisis. The case for days distracted French attention from the outbreak of World War I. Even 20 years...
...Parisians the dream of history is caught in the web of streets where the Nazis last week stolidly laid waste-in preparation, it was said, for a rebuilding job designed by no less an architect than Adolf Hitler. A brave letter appeared in Figaro: "Paris, which in June of 1940 miraculously escaped trial by fire and the horror of destruction, is unexpectedly menaced by new destruction." The letter was signed by a group of intellectuals and painters, including Jean Giraudoux, Paul Valery, Paul Morand, Jean Cocteau, Andre Derain. The man in the street, passing the wreckers at work, simply muttered...