Word: gautiers
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...died young in the gutter after writing Cynara, a poetic rosary for disillusioned young men; Artist Aubrey Beardsley, spidery, sardonic, tuberculous genius, called "the most monstrous of orchids" by Wilde; French Novelist Huysmans, who carried decadent experiments in subtle sensations as far as they have ever gone; Theophile Gautier, "Holy ghost of the exotic-aesthetic, satanic-mystical school;" Smithers, the fantastic under-the-counter bookseller, "wonderful and depraved," who aided mightily in finishing off his beloved protege Ernest Dowson with women and drink. "Good people," declared Oscar, "exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination...
...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...