Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Napoleon I founded the Bank of France, the return on investment is thus at the rate of some 30%. Such shareholders would never have fired Governor Moret. They, too. gloomed as brisk Premier Flandin popped in as the new Governor of the Bank of France last week bland M. Jean Tannery. Since 1925 and 1926 respectively, M. Jean Tannery has been dextrously managing those curious magicians' hats of French State finance, La Caisse des Dépôts and La Caisse Autonome d'Amortissement...
...piano Stravinsky became a composer more important, his champions insist, than Richard Strauss or Jean Sibelius, the other great S's of 20th Century music. Stravinsky's father, a basso at the Maryinsky Theatre in Petrograd, encouraged the boy so long as he was content to remain an amateur. He went dutifully to the University to study law but his marks were consistently poor. At 20 the die of his career was cast when the great Rimsky-Korsakoff took him for a pupil...
...changed his style because his rich ideas were spent. But modernists have continued to watch him closely, for even in his "classicism" his rules have been his own. He wrote Les Noces for percussion, pianos and chorus. For Oedipus Rex, his "operaoratorio," the Greek story was adapted by Frenchman Jean Cocteau, then translated into Latin. When Stokowski gave it in Philadelphia the soloists were represented by 15-foot puppets (TIME, April...
PASSING JUDGMENTS-George Jean Nathan-Knopf ($2.50). Another volume of critical essays by a famed bachelor, onetime second fiddle to H. L. Mencken...
Married. Baron Hewart, Lord Chief Justice of England, 65; and Jean Stewart, 28. schoolmistress; in Totteridge, Hertfordshire, England...