Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...different from Jean Valjean, you are returned here not to suffer from the vindictiveness of the law. Our criminal law proceeds in its enforcement from no motives of revenge, and you have been returned not for the purpose of persecution but in order that you may be prosecuted in a decent and humane manner for the crime whereof you are charged...
...Indeed, you seem to present to me in many respects a modern portrait having great likeness to that famous character painted by Victor Hugo-in sooth, you appear to be a modern Jean Valjean...
Left. By Cinemactress Jean Harlow: an estate of $41,000; to her mother, Mrs. Jean Bello...
...good third of The Song of the World is made up of descriptions of nature; but readers who automatically skip such passages may find their eyes arrested willy-nilly. Nature to Jean Giono is not a static stage-set but a legion of dynamic actors. His trees not only have their individual smells but their own voices; water is hard or soft like a hostile muscle or like friendly flesh; everything breathes and moves, lives and acts. Sample: "Flights of dead leaves were swept off by the rain. The woods were being stripped bare. Huge water-polished oaks emerged from...
...Berry was editor of the Cornell Widow in the time of George Jean Nathan, then practiced law in Manhattan, returned to Ithaca to direct athletics and establish himself as a campus character, famed for his brown tweed hat with grouse feather. What little writing he did was for local, college or farm papers. The New Yorker tried him out for two weeks in May, with instant success. Sensing in his work some of the curious detachment that marked Andy White's "Notes and Comment," The New Yorker persuaded Rym Berry to leave campus & farm, to come to town...