Word: gallicisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bourg purchased his cityscape La Neige, Artist Henri's reputation vaulted, his tal ent ripened slowly, continuously. He taught in Philadelphia, Paris, New York. His later years were spent at Manhattan's Art Students League, where hun dreds of students learned that this man with the sensitive Gallic features and wide-set, almost almond eyes, could stimu late their vision and would carefully avoid imposing his own or any particular technique. In his insistence on vision rather than style lay his greatness as a teacher. "Every stave in a picket fence," he wrote, "should be drawn with...
...often said that none but a Frenchman can hope to rise above the rank of Captain in the Foreign Legion. But it is also true that one need not explain all one's antecedents to the Legion. Anything but French in appearance, red-thatched Freydenberg nevertheless had such Gallic dash that he became Major, Colonel, and after the Moroccan campaign of 1926 against Abd-El-Krim, General of Brigade...
...than fencers--the resignation of the man who has directed Harvard fencing for eight years means the passing of a well loved personality. Fresh from the schools of France, where swordsmanship is still the gentleman's exercise, M. Danguy brought to Harvard a knowledge of the sport which his Gallic fervor quickly imparted to his pupils. His success became apparent in the records of his teams, but even more in the devotion of the ever-increasing number of men who came to learn from...
History. During the War, Capt. Harry J. Hahn, Kansas City auto salesman, served with the U. S. aviation corps. In France he met and married Mlle. Andree Lardoux, niece of the Marquis de Chambre of Brittany. She brought her husband a natural dowry of dark hair and eyes, Gallic chic. Her property dowry included a painting of a gentle faced brunette whose bosom plumply filled her brick-red velvet bodice. The painting was on two layers of canvas, bore on the back the inscription: "Taken from the wood and put on canvas by Hacquin at Paris, 1777."* It had been...
...editorial desk of Petit Parisien sat the charming relict of the late Senator Paul Dupuy, famed Gallic publicist, looking over the latest batch of U. S. comic strips for her Sunday edition. Now and again as she listened to the hum of the presses she wondered whether today she had-scooped Senator François Coty, famed Gallic parfumier and editor of the new Ami du Peuple and other papers...