Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group of very young Russians, seated on a marble terrace above the sea (quite in Elinor Glyn's best manner) discussed every subject under the sun, including literature and its High Priest, Leonid Andreyev. On Feb. 12, 1928 (remembered as the birthday of one of them), a group of not-so-young Russians sat in an attic overlooking chimney pots (in the best starving-artist manner), and discussed art-or rather the lack...
Balloting. Thirty-four parties crowded the field, an average of slightly more than one political group per million Poles. To meet competition thus keen, the Sanatzia or Healthy Politics party, supporting Pilsudski, adopted quaint & questionable expedients...
Results. Chosen were both a new Sejm (Chamber) and a new Senate. In the former Marshal Pilsudski obtained roughtly twice as many Deputies as are adherent to any other group, but even so his cohorts number not quite one-third of the Sejm as a whole. The great confusion of party lines made it difficult for even the Marshal to count his Deputies with exactness, but he claimed 150 out of a Sejm of 474. The only trend discernible among the other parties was a leftward shift which virtually undermined the formerly potent Nationalist bloc and slightly swelled the ranks...
...divorce his friend and marry another man, had killed her husband. But the thread of evidence is only one of the strands drawn through the astonishing tapestry of this play. It tries to reproduce the effect that such a murder might really have upon a small group of assorted polite persons. The play opens with a fifteen minute soliloquy from Harvey Bell Smith who is annoyed because his dinner guests are late; when Fifi Sands arrives, last of them all, she is hysterical with happiness because she will at last be able to divorce her rich husband and marry Owen...
...meet; padding back and forth in front of the aristocratic house is the lanky giant, now a policeman. War arrives; the giant takes the boy to war; they return, the young couple marry; and Mother Machree and Bozo do also. For no matter what happens this little group of abused Irish stick together to swell the jubilation at the box office...