Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Gaston LaChaise, 53, French-born sculptor; of leukemia; in Manhattan. Famed was he for figures of mighty contours and vast dimensions, one of which, a tremendous torso of a woman labeled COLOSSAL, was last year acquired by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME, July 23, 1934). A massive man who somewhat resembled his own work, LaChaise used to say: "My statue grows, it has to be big. I cannot help...
...Bully!" Since Ethiopia's emperor?however dense he may be as to the U. S. New Deal (see p. 17)?is too smart to think a dusky delegate could impress the League, his country's case was again presented last week by scrappy little French Law Professor Gaston Jèze. Wasting no breath to deny Baron Aloisi's undeniable facts on Ethiopian savagery, the Professor with great dexterity called Benito Mussolini a "Big Bully" without actually using those words. He neatly said that since nobody is to blame for the Ualual incident no cause exists for war, ridiculed what...
...creature was back in its cage, apparently none the worse for wear. In a corner of the laboratory lay the body of another monkey named Matilda, its belly turning blue. Matilda had been "frozen too fast." was dead beyond repair. In the icebox was a third stiff monkey named Gaston, which Dr. Willard did not intend to revive until after a ten-day congealment...
...demand of Ethiopia, the League Council last week called Italy to the mat. Ethiopia was represented by Professor Gaston Jeze of the Paris Sorbonne. To smash him Dictator Benito Mussolini sent to Geneva the hard-bitten Italian naval officer who, during the War, smashed Imperial Austria's network of spies after they had succeeded in blowing up two Italian battleships...
...Chief qualification for a would-be investigator was a letter of recommendation from his Congressman. And under suspicious, eccentric Director William J. Burns, who used to keep photographs of Lenin and Trotsky, like a special rogue's gallery, on his office wall, several ex-convicts and the notorious Gaston B. Means wormed their way on to the Bureau's rolls. Such was the sloppy and demoralized agency which, in the scandalous spring of 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was handed by Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone, who had just succeeded Harry Micajah Daugherty, besmirched Harding crony...