Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...involving a smuggler's daughter, a great prince and the royal family, shocked a France that had become thoroughly accustomed to lurid intrigues and vile conspiracies. The smuggler's daughter was Sophie Dawes, brawny, coarse, mean-tempered Englishwoman from the Isle of Wight. The prince was Louis Henri Joseph, Duc de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, who had picked Sophie up in a London brothel. She was given great estates by her lover, was received by the king, moved in the highest French society despite her lack of tact, her shameless social climbing and her inability to speak...
...Died. Henri Barbusse, 62, novelist, Pacifist, Communist; of pneumonia; in Moscow, where he attended sessions of the Seventh World Communist Party Congress. Son of a French atheist and an Englishwoman, Barbusse enlisted in the War as a private, was invalided out three times, twice cited for bravery. His war book, Le Feu, won the Prix Goncourt in 1917 despite militarists who attacked its "defeatism...
...devalued the National currency (TIME, April 8). This public loss left the Treasury with a public gain of 3,500,000,000 francs ($118,000,000) in the value of its gold stocks. Designating this last week as "profit," Premier-Professor van Zeeland ordered Minister of Public Works Henri de Man to spend the entire sum during the next three years on making work for Belgium's jobless...
Best performers of all are the French Societe des Instruments anciens, founded in 1901 by Henri-Gustave Casadesus. Composed of some Casadesus brothers, friends and Mme Regina Patorni-Casadesus, this group has made several U. S. tours. But for all their smooth playing the Societe members disappoint experts in one notable way. They play their viols like violins instead of holding them between the knees, sawing resonantly as old-time players...
...years ago, U. S. wrestling had boiled down to two major groups, comparable to the major leagues of baseball. One was Promoter Curley's, with Londos for champion. The other was run by Promoter Paul Bowser, with Ed Don George's predecessor, Henri De Glane, as chief attraction. A year ago, wrestling rumors said that a merger between the two groups was imminent. Last week's bout, however acrimoniously contested, was essentially an indication that the merger had been amicably completed and that Promoter Jack Curley, with simple O'Mahoney as his proxy, had finally become...