Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passengers were aboard. When the Atlantique caught fire at 3:30 a. m. she was being taken by a skeleton crew from Bordeaux, her home port, to Le Havre for a winter overhaul. Largest, fastest, most luxurious ship on the Europe-to-South America run, the Atlantique was almost new, had made only ten Atlantic round trips. She boasted "The Only Street Afloat," a thoroughfare 450 ft. long in the ship's belly. Down this mimic Rue de la Paix wealthy Brazilians, Argentinians and Chileans have strolled to buy in smart ship shops every French luxury imaginable, including swank...
...Manhattan, influenza forced these actresses and singers to cancel scheduled performances: Eva Le Gallienne, Judith Anderson, Alice Brady, Lily Pons, Mary Garden, Also ill last week lay: President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in Prague and Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick in Manhattan, both with influenza ; Governor Charles Wayland Bryan, of coronary artery disease, in Lincoln, Neb.; Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel, after an abdominal operation, in Manhattan...
...jazz are not the well-advertised Whitemans, Lombardos and Vallees, but an inner circle of such amazing virtuosi as Saxophonists Jimmy Dorsey, Coleman Hawkins, Frank Trum-bauer, Adrian Rollini; Trumpeters Louis Armstrong, Red Nichols, the late Bix Beiderbecke; Trombonists Miff Mole, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey. M. Coffin distinguishes between le jazz straight et hot, denotes les classiques du hot, discusses their sources and development, arrives at a conclusion which has long seemed obvious to devotees: that the best jazz, which enjoys little public 'recognition, is an intricately exciting music, with the true "blues" the only original contribution...
...sieu le Ministre! S'il vous plâit. What disposition shall I make of the gold which is ready pour les Etats-Unis...
...murderesses in Somerset Maugham's The Letter and in Dishonored Lady, began with Michael Aden's Green Hat. Only those who saw and relished the play in 1925 are now capable, upon reflection, of appraising its utter trashiness. The celebrated headpiece which Actress Cornell affected in this play, "pour le sport and bravely worn," was duplicated and widely bought throughout the country for $22.50. It was in "Cornell green." Author Arlen made $200,000 in royalties from the play...