Word: jeuner
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...arresting title notwithstanding, was a second-rate hotel overlooking a second-rate Riviera town. Its 22 guests were a fair cross-section of upper-middle-class England (except for three who were French). When you first see them gathered in the dining room for their skimpy déjeuner they look a pretty average, not to say mediocre lot; but when Author Crawshay-Williams lets you follow them into their separate sanctums, shows them quarreling, soliloquizing, making love, they cease to be typical specimens, become (in most cases) strikingly individual. The fact that it duplicates the idea of Vicki Baum...