Word: laurentic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went into receivership. When ten surviving fly boats, including gangplanks, copper megaphones, pontoons and the skippers' hats were sold at auction for a piddling 225,000 francs ($5,962), oldtimers thronged the shore, made sad sounds. Mused L'Oeuvre (see p. 38) quoting Poet-of-the-People Laurent Tailhade...
Died. Alfonso Laurent Cik, 38, Yugoslav decorator, whom Spanish Nationalists accused of decorating Loyalist prison cells with weird designs that changed under dazzling lights, drove prisoners mad; at the hands of an official garroter; in Barcelona...
...formerly a German freighter, now outfitted with steel-girded cells and mutiny-suppressing hot-steam hose. Into her hold go Foreign Legion deserters, Algerian Spahis convicted of rape, French Indo-Chinese murderers, Circassian thieves, arch-crooks from Montmartre. The ship arrives in 50 or 60 days at St. Laurent, on the Maroni River dividing Surinam* and French Guiana, where after another brief internment, most convicts are assigned to a prison at Cayenne or Kourou or to any one of numerous jungle camps along the river...
Safest, nearest spot for convicts to head for is British-owned Trinidad, 600 miles from St. Laurent, where escaped convicts are now fed, hospitalized, sent on their way, treated like shipwrecked mariners. Althougn Britain and France have signed an extradition treaty, Trinidad Judge Charles Greenidge virtually nullified the treaty for Devil's Island criminals by freeing 13 escaped convicts on the almost impossible-to-fulfill technicality that extradition papers with full descriptions had to originate from the men's place of conviction, that French officials wanting to extradite men had to present strict evidence of where the crime...
...Samuel Memorial Committee obeyed the first provision of Mrs. Samuel's will by holding a world competition for sculpture-to be grouped in three terraces designed by Philadelphia's smartest architect, Paul Philippe Cret. Last week the first completed piece of sculpture, Spanning the Continent, by Robert Laurent, was quietly installed in one completed terrace. A goodly distance from Mr. Samuel's lonely Viking, it consists of a stumpy, sun-bonneted female figure helping a gaunt pioneer youth push a large wheel in the direction of the Philadelphia Zoo. Critic Dorothy Grafly of the Philadelphia Record coldly...