Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author, Elliot Harold Paul, 46, looks like a Frenchman but was Massachusetts-born & bred, left his job as newshawk to go to France with the A.E.F. as a private, came out as a sergeant. In 1925 he went back to France, worked on the Paris editions of the Chicago Tribune, New York Herald, with Eugene Jolas founded the literary left-wing review transition (TIME, July 13). An accomplished musician, Author Paul is an authority on the clavichord and harpsichord, is now working on a "musical novel" (his eighth) in Manhattan. He hopes to get back to Iviza "some...
Only four of the more than 50 pavilions were ready-the German, Russian, Belgian, Italian-and there was much caustic criticism because the President had had to make his tour of the Exposition by boat to avoid "holes in the ground and the mess of construction." Jean Frenchman, however, had little cause to grumble at the delay. Because the turnstiles could not be erected in time, everybody was let in free...
...loungers and boulevard philosophers were less absorbed in Premier Blum's political problems than in a treatise which he wrote 25 years ago, called Le Mariage, but which only lately crashed into the limelight. By last week these amateur reflections on the subject nearest to every Frenchman's heart had run to a 20th edition. The book advises young men "to sow plenty of wild oats." "not to love their wives too much when finally they marry." Other Blum tenets for successful marriage are: "Don't marry for love. . . ." Men should have sexual adventures, "otherwise married life...
Though many a present-day author incites to political action, few have practised what they preach. One of the few is André Malraux (Man's Fate); Ralph Bates is another. Frenchman Malraux served on a revolutionary committee in the abortive Communist rising in Canton (1927), lived to tell the tale. Britisher Bates's first two books (Lean Men, The Olive Fields; were laid in Spain, where last July he joined the Loyalists to fight against Franco. Perhaps because these writers are not simply men of words but of deeds, the stones they write seem as direct...
...might seem excruciatingly funny to some women, but to the enormous majority of steadygoing French folk it seemed like a godsend. Two nights later they heard on the radio President Albert Lebrun, a figure much esteemed for his dignified embodiment of the point of view of a small-town Frenchman, tell them that the entire nation must lay aside partisanship and buy up the loan...