Word: gourmet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine, there would be plenty of time to send one of M. le President's long-snouted Renault cars around to fetch a successor to fallen Premier Edouard Daladier (TIME, Oct. 30). When the limousine went out at last it sped to the Navy Ministry. There a great gourmet, one of the most discriminating connoisseurs of food and wine in France, had for once missed the rite of luncheon, waiting anxiously at his desk for the expected summons of President Lebrun...
...Gourmet Albert Sarraut is one of France's great empire builders, a stocky, twinkly-eyed Senator with a warm sense of humor, an icy sense of duty and the charmed life of a tomcat. At the turn of the century Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau picked young Tomcat Sarraut as a likely scrapping partner in the bitter Dreyfus affair. As Clemenceau's Under- secretary of Interior, M. Sarraut was challenged by a certain Deputy Pugliesi-Conti to duel over the rehabilitation of Jew Dreyfus. He accepted "on condition that it is to the death." Tomcat Sarraut's seconds thought...
...shocks. They were not surprised, therefore, when President Cutter tendered his resignation. They immediately elected him board chairman, an office which had not previously existed. To be president they chose their fellow director Francis Russell Hart, Boston banker (Old Colony Trust Co.), onetime U. S. consul in Colombia, historian, gourmet. As president Mr. Hart would not interfere with Sam Zemurray's direction of United Fruit; as board chairman Mr. Cutter could...
...Joel Stebbins, the University's astronomer. Campus wiseheads chuckle over the saying that "many a co-ed has learned about life while Joel learned about the stars." They chuckle too at the way to amuse his friends, Dr. Stebbins vacillates between full Vandyke and Hitler mustache. A gourmet, he counts the table second only to the observatory. He would be an A-1 golfer if he did not let astronomy and eating interfere...
...Causa) he was shouting for more and bigger loans to Chile, which many Chileans feared as "giving a foothold to imperialism." No sooner did times turn really bad than he popped up at Santiago as a bantam Stalin. A man with a host of friends, a good fellow, spender, gourmet, racy raconteur, Don Carlos was not down last week merely because he seemed...