Word: gallicly
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...Grateful TIME salutes the Gallic-spirited wife of San Francisco's black-haired maestro, whose music is often as brilliant as a clear Maine morning...
Civic Attraction. In San Francisco, Monteux's portly figure, dyed black hair and Gallic wit have long since become civic features. He lives with his excitable, rolypoly French wife in the oldfashioned, palatial Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill. The Monteux blue-serge suits and pearl stickpins are often seen in social salons...
...wise and witty pedant: a lover of Greek verses, a professor of rhetoric, a biographer of Beethoven. He was the rotund trencherman: in the piping days of peace, he lunched on soup, a couple of trout, a partridge, vegetables, dessert, cheese and two bottles of Burgundy. He was a Gallic sentimentalist: cartoonists loved to draw him as a transparent body with half-a-dozen hearts. In politics he stood left of center, where the heart belongs, the leader of the Radical Socialists. In statesmanship he fell heir to Briand's mantle; he preached the gospel of a United States...
...Tourel. Daughter of a traveling Russian fur merchant, Jennie Tourel, once a prima donna of the Paris Opera-Comique, now lives with her Latvian artist husband, Leo Michelson, in a four-room Manhattan apartment. Her Carmen (a role she claims to have sung about 200 times) was full of Gallic spice and neat as a championship billiard game. The City Center's Martha, a bid to the Broadway trade, looked and sounded more like musical comedy than opera. So did its star: dark-haired, convent-bred Ethel Barrymore Colt (daughter of Actress Ethel Barrymore and the late Russell Colt...
...Allied Medical Conference was held last week in the semicircular lecture hall of the University of Algiers. French doctors played host. About 100 British and U.S. doctors and a few Russians attended. There was real, prewar Gallic bonhomie provided by French doctors from Algiers (e.g., Professor Edmond Benhamou of the University) and Tunis (e.g., Paul Durand, director of the Pasteur Institute), assisted by a U.S. military band and cocktail parties. Points from some of the papers...