Word: jour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capacity for love and loyalty under a leering, winking mask of sexy chatter and innuendo ("Let me tell you," he assured young Albert, referring to the departed French governess, "there was many an occasion I went up to Mam-selle's boudoir to give her a long bong jour . . ."). Charley alone is enough to show why Novelist Elizabeth Bowen considers Henry Green "one of the living novelists whom I admire most." But Housemaid Edie, who builds their furtive little affair into a full-blown storm of love and wedding bells (in Britain), is an even more subtle and profound...
...grandparents gave no presents at Noël. But now U.S. and British customs have invaded the old traditions-although the chief gift season is still le jour de Van (New Year's Day). So there were little gifts, mostly for the children, below the tree...
...Miville-Dechêne, it was a busy and wonderful season-but an expensive one. She had spent $50 on Noël for food alone, would spend as much again on le jour de Van. But she was philosophic : "C'est cher. Mais c'est Noel...
...persisting in-production of such a pretentious movie, while the Nazis strutted through Pathé's Joinville studio, was the amazing accomplishment of France's smoothest movie team: small, elegant Director Marcel Carne and tousled Writer Jacques Preévert (Hôtel du Nord, Le Jour se Léve). U.S. moviegoers, unaccustomed to concentrated mixtures of sex, cynicism and murky symbolism, may enjoy the picture's sharply witty individual scenes and wonder what they all add up to. The overall theme might boil down to this: "Life is a tragicomedy, whether viewed from an expensive...
...grocer's daughter, Ellabelle Davis used to sing hymns in the church choir on Sundays. Weekdays she hummed arias as she sewed for Westchester County suburbanites in the Mattie Bowe Dressmaking Establishment. While pinning a dress on a customer one day, she sang the Depnis le Jour aria from Gustave Charpentier's Louise, an opera whose heroine is a seamstress. The customer, Louise Crane, paper mill heiress, daughter of Massachusetts' late wealthy Governor Winthrop Murray Crane, offered to finance her voice lessons...