Word: gourmet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Buchanan Brady grew up near New York's Bowery to become the most arresting figure in the bizarre night life of Broadway at the turn of the century. The picture, handsomely produced by Edmund Grainger, sketches his boyhood and then concentrates on his extraordinary career as gourmet, patron of the stage, stockmarket impresario and teetotaler that followed his overnight switch from New York Central "baggage smasher" to major-league railroad supply salesman. Since Brady's life is a legend, Playwright Preston Sturges, who did the screen play from Parker Morell's biography, wisely included apocryphal...
...grace of Parliament); Defender of the Faith-the English Faith-a Catholicism without a Pope (a title accorded to Henry VIII by the Pope); Emperor of India, living symbol and standard bearer of white civilization ruling over Asiatic peoples. But in life he was above all a gourmet; the symbol of the pleasures of life; dictator of modes; regulating all other ways of life to the way of enjoyment, and living to enjoy while living; beloved by the grand mondc of the Continent; inspiration of the chefs of the Savoy Hotel in creating the justly famous poulard Edward...
Still in no mood to balance France's scandalously unbalanced budget, the Chamber of Deputies warily received last week the new Cabinet of that sleek, nine-lived gourmet, Premier Albert Sarraut (TIME, Nov. 6). Impeccable in a frock-coat freshly pressed as usual, M. Sarraut serenely mounted the tribune, adjusted his gleaming pince-nez and read in a murmur a declaration of policy so carefully prolix and nebulous that it lulled and stupefied all opposition-as smart M. Sarraut intended. The Chamber will be left to face of itself the necessity of balancing the budget, Premier Sarraut indicated. When...
...received from the entire French Press what was called a "fraternal welcome"-fraternal because he and his brother Maurice are among the leading publishers of France, own the famed Depeche de Toulouse, most potent French provincial newsorgan. Approvingly the Paris Press recalled that at the London Economic Conference, Delegate-Gourmet Albert Sarraut delivered a ringing speech in which he cried, "The world in this time of Depression is suffering from grave underconsumption of wine. . . . Ah wine: the gift from heaven of the blood of life which has been vouchsafed us in this vale of tears as compensation for our suffering...
...Twelve days are all I need to get over things like that!" Gourmet Sarraut likes to boast over a bottle. "Once an automobile ran over me on a bridge-so that not only were some of my bones crushed but I was also flung into the river. Ten days later-two days sooner than my twelve-day average-I was again on my two feet, somewhat splintered but able to work...