Word: gautier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became a sort of provincial Remy de Gourmont," says Critic Malcolm Cowley in his introduction to Selected Writings. "As a newspaperman he could publish translations from Gautier and Loti that were daring for the time, besides original sketches that the magazines would have rejected as being godless or indecent (or simply overwritten...
...hundred years ago this week Composer Frederic Chopin died in Paris, aged 39. For the great man's funeral in the Madeleine, admission was by card only: 3,000 crowded into the chapel. Theophile Gautier wrote his epitaph: "Rest in peace, beautiful soul, noble artist! Immortality has begun for you . . ." History has confirmed Gautier. This week, on the centenary of Chopin's death, the western world honored him on a scale matched only by the plaudits he knew in his lifetime...
What is so damned comical about one of Jean Simmons' admirers asking her for a pic ture of her feet? . . . Du Maurier in his classic Trilby devoted page after page to descriptions of Trilby's beautiful feet. In the novels of such romantics as Théophile Gautier, Restif de la Bretonne, Pierre Louÿs, Sacher-Masoch and Emile Zola, the heroine's feet are always lovely, frequently bare, and often kissed by the hero...
Also reported were the appointments of the following as cadet non-commissioned officers: Oliver W. Roosevelt, Jr. '48, Charles H. Sammond, Jr. '48, David S. Jensen '48, Jurgen M. Kruse '48, Wilfredo A. Gautier '48, and Walter L. Moore...
Born. To U.S. Army Lieut. Jean Bekessy (Author "Hans Habe" of A Thousand Shall Fall), 32, and Eleanor Close Sturges Gautier Rand Bekessy, 32, Post Toasties heiress, daughter of Mrs. Joseph E. (Mission to Moscow) Davies: a son, Antal Miklos; in Manhattan. Weight...