Word: gautier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effectives from his south to his north front. Meanwhile, he opened the floodgates of all dams on the Noguera Pallaresa and Segre Rivers, northern tributaries of the Ebro. sent a wall of water tearing down into the river which raised it from three to five feet. Rightist Pilot Heraclio Gautier flew over the river to photograph the effects of the flood on Leftist pontoon bridges. His plane was winged by some 200 bullets. In the best Ratisbon tradition, he came back, managed to land in Rightist territory with photographs intact, died still at the controls...
Divorced. Eleanor Close Sturges Gautier Rand, 27, thrice-married daughter of thrice-married Mrs. Joseph E. Davies (wife of the U. S. Ambassador to Belgium), granddaughter of Cerealman Charles W. Post; from George Curtis Rand, 27, Manhattan socialite; in Reno...
...their fight for fame the brothers encountered even graver difficulties. Rabid anti-romantics, they wrote such painstakingly realistic novels that old-line critics whooped "sculptured slime . . . literature of putrescence." To younger men, such as Emile Zola, the Goncourts were prophetic pioneers. Gradually they built up a literary circle- Gautier, Sainte-Beuve, Flaubert, Renan, Taine-who used to meet fortnightly to dine well, talk how they liked. On one of these occasions, Gautier rebuked a silent guest: "As for you, I hope that the next time you come, you will compromise yourself. We all compromise ourselves here...
Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo), Parisian demimondaine, breaks with her protector (Henry Daniell) when she falls in love with young Armand Duval (Robert Taylor), breaks with Duval when his father tells her she is spoiling his career, finally dies of consumption complicated by a broken heart. For modern audiences this story lacks one element: surprise. Its situations, from the one in which Armand first shows his love for Marguerite by returning to her a handkerchief which he has kept in his pocket ever since the day six months before when she dropped it in a theatre, to the one in which...
...Syrup, Swans Down Cake Flour. Minute Tapioca, Calumet Baking Powder, Baker's Chocolate. *Mrs. Hutton's daughter Eleanor was thrice married by the time she was 24. First husband was Playwright Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) with whom she eloped. No. 2 was French Poloist Etienne Marie Robert Gautier. No. 3 is George Curtis Rand, Manhattan agent for Bugatti automobiles...