Word: henry
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wiped out by seeding their centers with silver-iodide crystals. Russian antiaircraft cannons regularly bark over the mountains of Georgia and the hail-blasted steppes of Siberia, pumping tons of silver iodide into the sky at intervals of ten to 15 minutes until storms subside. In France, Meteorologist Henri Dessens has created le Météotron, a superstove that covers 3,200 square meters and has 100 burners that can generate 700,000 kilowatts of power to send cumulo-nimbuses tumbling into the sky, frequently to spill rain. Snow has been seeded in the California High Sierra...
Analyzing a decline of 5% since January in values on the Brussels Stock Exchange, Executive Henri Carpentier gives the traditional explanation. "When New York is booming, we're stable. When New York is stable, we're doing bad. And when New York is doing bad, we're doing very bad. Therefore, we're doing very bad right...
...Sidonie was a charming little chatte with long chestnut braids that got tangled with her toes while she slept and made her dream of snakes. One day a sure-enough snake turned up in the plausible person of Henri Gauthier-Villars, a 34-year-old literary hack who married her and then shut her up in his Paris garret. "Put down what you remember of your board-school days," he instructed her bluntly. "Don't be shy of the spicy bits. Money's short...
Literary Lesbians. Sidonie obediently put down what she remembered-Henri was so pleased that he published the story under his own pen name: Willy. In a month, Claudine at School was a bawdy bestseller-Henri was so pleased that he locked her in her room every morning and refused to let her out until she had written her daily quota. In this manner she produced three sequels to Claudine and made her husband famous-Henri was so pleased that he put an end to the marriage...
Broke, bewildered and 33, Sidonie jumped at the first job she was offered: playing a "cat woman" in a vaudeville show. Terrified of men after her experience with Henri, she clung to the first friendly women she met: a group of well-known literary lesbians. During the next six years, she lived as mistress to the cigar-chomping Marquise de Belboeuf and published three novels. At 40, mostly recovered from Henri and somewhat disillusioned with dykes, Colette married Paris Publisher (of Le Matin) Henri de Jouvenel, and six months after the wedding gave birth to her only child, a daughter...