Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major flaw was an occasional dry, pingless top note. She also knew how to act, and her trim figure, revealed for the seduction of the monk Athanaël in the first act, made Paris audiences forget all the baggy Thaïses they had ever seen. Many a Frenchman (including Composer Massenet's nephew, Pierre) was reminded, in Edis' best moments, of an earlier Thaïs, Mary Garden. The comparison was appropriate: Manhattan-born Edis de Philippe had studied under Garden...
...Much in American history happened before 1776 or 1492. The birth of Christ in Palestine still arouses a deeper emotional response in Americans than even the Fourth of July. . . . The Athenian Plato, the Spaniard Cervantes, the English Shakespeare, the German Goethe, the Frenchman Balzac, played a large part in shaping the American mind. By excessive emphasis on American history, literature and civilization, we are cutting ourselves off from the broader, deeper, more humane currents in our own American tradition...
...most interesting thing about the French Empire," said a Frenchman last week, "is that it still exists...
...Pierre Découzon, a venerable Frenchman who had been in Madagascar for 45 years . . . was buried alive after his children had been killed before his eyes. . . . Jules Saury . . . was tortured, and, while still alive, cut to pieces by the native surgeon whom he considered his friend. The pieces were then thrown to the dogs in front of other members of his family...
...sacrificial lamb chosen to bolster Cerdan's U.S. reputation last week was Harold Green of Brooklyn, a better-than-average middleweight who had twice beaten Rocky Graziano. (Rocky knocked him out in their third fight.) In round two, the Frenchman shot three rapid rights to the head that buckled Green's knees; a left hook to the body dumped him at Cerdan's feet.* At the count of ten Green was wavering to his feet, but the referee decided he was through. It was victory No. 98 in Cerdan's 100 fights...