Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quail-hunting on the Gillisonville, S. C. preserves of Charles S. Haight, Manhattan admiralty lawyer, dapper Jean Tillier...
...last week was Hagen's weak-kneed half-brother Gunther, caused Critic Lawrence Gilman to write in the Herald Tribune: ". . . The score has not been so beautifully and movingly sung as regards its principal roles since that unforgettable March afternoon at the end of a century when Jean De Reszke's dying Siegfried turned our hearts to water . . . and the Olympian Lilli [the late great Lilli Lehmann] caused us to remember always one of the things that Wagnerian sublimity can mean...
Royalist Manifesto. With Paris editors predicting that "the Daladier Cabinet may last three months-or three days," Monseigneur Le Duc de Guise, who would be King Jean III of France if enthroned, manifestoed as follows from his Manoir d' Anjou near Brussels...
...first bust of Marianne to attract public attention was that of Sculptor Jean-Baptiste Soitout, designed during the despotic provisional government of 1848. At that time France's ministry of the interior organized a competition for a figure to represent the Republic. Ten were submitted and Sculptor Soitout's winning bust was exhibited with much éclat in the Salon of 1850. There was some talk of ordering replicas for public buildings, but while the discussion was still going on pale Louis Napoléon abruptly ended the Second Republic with his famed whiff of grapeshot. Soitout...
...government decided to distribute Mariannes to all the communes of France, held another competition. This time Jean-Antoine Injalbert was the lucky man. Thousands of plaster copies of his Marianne, a broad-browed, sharp-featured young woman in a "liberty" cap, have been sent all over the world. To the government they seemed quite satisfactory until last year when one Jean Mistler was Under-Secretary of Fine Arts in the Paul-Boncour Cabinet...