Word: jeux
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...crowd stood Pierre Mac Orlan, painter, novelist, .and youngest (67) member of the academy, who, by tradition, must announce the winner. Slowly Mac Orlan came down the steps, pushed his way to the microphone. Said he: "The Prix Goncourt for 1950 goes to Paul Colin for his novel Les jeux sauvages...
...team, and he is substitute, so Navy will see Spector when Oakes Fleps passes to a Muse Crimson stands. Harvard linemen not Green; each one can stand Gaffney can dish it out. Odds are on Navy, but that is all Blaha, so take Page from Huey and faites vos jeux. But sailors will go to town in evening when is question of Boston Daughters, not can she, but Wilsie be Struck by Navy. Harvard 14, Navy...
...chandelier. Casino attendants rushed in to count the dead, succor the wounded. By what amounted to a miracle nobody had been so much as scratched. In a half-hour the demolished table had been carted out, the chandelier swept up, and croupiers were again crying "Mesdames, Messieurs, faites vos jeux...
...next reference to cards was in the accounts of the Royal treasurer of Charles VI of France in 1392, where an item appeared for three painted "jeux de carte" for His Majesty. The painter Grinogonneux was commissioned to paint these gorgeous cards, of which there are examples at the Library...
...other hand ... it errs in being the somewhat prolix promulgator of impertinent puns. Its jeux d'esprit are sometimes not in the best of taste. J. F. AGEE...