Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundreds of meetings, had thousands of followers, saluting each other with out stretched arms, wearing red armbands with the cross and crown of Christus Rex in black. Rexism is "against all political parties," mildly antiSemitic. It acknowledges the cultural differences between the "Walloons" (French-speaking Belgians) and the "Flamigantes" (Flemish Nationalists who want a separate autonomous government), contends that the "Flamigantes" should not be obliged to learn French...
...Persistence of Memory, it showed a group of watches, limp as dead flounders and crawling with insects, drooping from the branches of a dead tree by the seaside, all this on a panel the size of a sheet of typewriter paper and painted in color as brilliant as a Flemish primitive. It now belongs to the Museum of Modern Art and was a headliner in last week's exhibition. Other interesting Dalis exhibited included a drawing, fine as an Italian master's, of a nude woman with a body made of half-open bureau drawers, and a painting...
There is something deliciously subtle and sharp in the French sense of humor, especially when it deals with the relationships between la femme et I'homme. And this is what "Carnival In Flanders" (time, 1618) is about: the "heroic" resistance the women in a Flemish town put up against the Spanish Duke come to sack the village--by pretending that the pompous, ineffectual mayor is dead and going therefore into mourning! The picture is replete with hilarious situation, good lines (there are English titles), and piercing caricatures. Alerme as the Burgomaster, Francoise Rosay as his wife, significantly listed...
...Europe last week with the fact that its entire post-War structure of pacts and apparatus to keep Peace has now virtually collapsed. Spunky little Belgium thinks that her only chance is to stand fearlessly neutral, as she did in 1914, but this time better prepared to fight. The Flemish element among King Leopold's subjects have always considered that his father, King Albert, was a fool for not selling to Kaiser Wilhelm II at a stiff price the right to let German troops peaceably cross Belgium to attack France. Whether His Majesty in any way now shares this...
...Amsterdam Publisher William Randolph ("Buy American") Hearst bought $70,000 worth of antique Flemish and English...