Word: hiver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris a year ago last July, in the Vélodrome d'Hiver and the Parc-des-Princes, gathered 75,000 young people whose berets and uniforms, naming torches and fluttering banners made them look like any horde of young Communists, Nazis or Fascists. But they knelt before a cross, and the good grey Archbishop of Paris, Jean Cardinal Verdier, said to them: "You have sworn to effect that miracle upon which in our timidity we had no longer counted." The 75,000 were Jocists, members of JOC (Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne-Christian Working Youth), celebrating...
...fights with the late William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, one in London and one in Paris, both of which ended in fouls. In 1931 he built his,Palais des Sports, patterned on Tex Richard's Madison Square Garden, on the site of the old Velodrome d'Hiver. Tex Rickard was proud of his "600 Millionaires." Jeff Dickson organized a "Club de Mille" whose members have their own clubroom and bar in the Palais des Sports. By this time he had achieved the unprecedented distinction of being made a member of the boxing boards of both England and France...
...world, playing golf, meeting people. He found leisure boring and the Fox company thought this play, which it had on file, would give him just what he wanted to do. He wears corduroy breeches, a mackinaw, and a woodsman's boots and cap. He hums "The Rr-hiver Shannon" and when, with his broad brogue, he asks "What's the matter with Al Smith?" the audiences in Democrat towns start clapping. The picture is a comedy which critics passed off with an indulgent phrase or two when it was given as a play on Broadway last year...
...Madrid's Consolidated Gas Co., a beautiful wax mannequin en deshabille, a life-size skeleton, a gibbet from which hangs the King of Bulgaria. Famed orator, he once made a speech from a trapeze (at the Circo Madrileño), from an elephant (at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris). Says Critic Waldo Frank: "His true fellow is Marcel Proust. . . . Ramon also weaves the filmy spell of a dissolving world. . . ." Among his more than 70 books: The Black and White Widow, A Doctor of Rare Ingenuity, Torero Caracho, The Chalet of the Roses, The Incongruous...