Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris, seize the Chamber of Deputies and make use of the facsimile signatures of Cabinet ministers, such a monstrous plot was no laughing matter. The key to Last week's riddle in French popular psychology was, of course, that strong nerves and shrewdness are leading French characteristics. Jean Frenchman figured that if the Reds, Pinks and Pale-Pinks-i.e., the Communist, Socialist and Radical Socialist supporters of the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps-were content to let Justice and the police take their course against sewer-jumping Royalists, then he could safely laugh...
...later, at a banquet given by intimate friends, that he tried to express his gratitude. As he stood up, however, emotion overcame him. Dumbly, the fierce-faced old man clasped his wife in his arms, expressed in a long embrace feelings he could not utter. The old man was Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, most famous of present-day composers and "Uncrowned King of Finland"; the occasion was his seventieth birthday...
Whatever the rating he gives him, there can be no doubt that his favorite musician is Jean Sibelius. He owns three radios and never misses a broadcast of his own compositions, tuning in inaccurately and listening intently to the resultant howling mixture of music and static. "You must be a good, very good musician to listen to radio," he says, "to get details...
Married. Clendenin J. Ryan Jr., grandson of the late great Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan and secretary to Manhattan's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, to Jean Harder, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan. Mr. Ryan's 1934 marriage to Austrian Countess Marie Anne Paule Ferdinandine von Wurmbrand-Stuppack was annulled. His cousin, Basil ("Pat") Ryan, was married three weeks ago while "full of North Carolina corn," to one Martha Barkley. 21, mother of a two-months-old child...
Married. Rose-Zell Rowland, 20, one-time Manhattan burlesque "Golden Girl" (her costume: gilt paint); to Baron Jean Empain, 35-year-old Belgian multimillionaire, principal owner of the Paris Metro (subway); in a Budapest nursing home, three days after she had presented the baron with a son. It was reported that had the child been a daughter, there would have been no marriage...