Word: gerard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a confidential air James Watson Gerard, who was Woodrow Wilson's ambassador to Wilhelm II, stepped off the 5. S. Paris at Manhattan last week, addressed reporters portentously...
Turning from Mr. Gerard to Captain Rene Pugnet of the Paris, the reporters scratched down one of the finest fish stories of all time. "We passed through a school of sharks yesterday," said Captain Pugnet. "I fired at them and with 30 shots killed 30 sharks...
Four strange French children-Paul, his sister Elizabeth, their friends Agatha and Gerard-and a wealthy American Jew are placed by Author Cocteau in a scene bathed in a curious, unreal melancholy. Of Paul and Elizabeth, two orphans whose fate is to live thoroughly naive and irresponsible lives, the story chiefly concerns itself...
...Three years, then, went by in the Rue Montmartre, to the monotonous rhythm of a never-flagging intensity. Elizabeth and Paul, made for childhood, continued to live on like the occupants of twin cradles. Gerard was in love with Elizabeth. Elizabeth and Paul adored and tortured each other. . . . The same violent nights, the same clammy mornings, the same long afternoons when the children became estrays, moles in the light of day. It ended up with Elizabeth and Gerard's going out together. Paul went out in quest of his own pleasures...
...reader might suppose, the book does end by the equivalent of turning on the gas, after Elizabeth had perfunctorily married the Jew who thoughtfully died without consummating the marriage and who left a great deal of money, and after she had cozened Gerard (who loved her) into marrying Agatha (who loved Paul). The treachery disclosed, Paul takes poison, Elizabeth prepares to shoot herself. "A few more seconds of courage, and they would come out where flesh is dissolved, where souls are wed, where incest no longer roams...