Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some exceptionally well-dressed European gentlemen of all extractions slipped into Cannes on the Riviera last week, put up at Le Carlton and went about together as inseparably and discreetly as the senior class of a divinity school. One night their limousines purred over to Nice where they attended the Opera en masse. Another day they went for a ride as far as Menton, alighted and strolled about two & two, discussing the affairs of Krupp, Schneider, Vickers, Skoda...
When the last curtain fell on a performance of L'Aiglon in Pittsburgh, freckled Actress Eva Le Gallienne stepped across the footlights. Said she: "Some stars and actors, seeing this small house, wouldn't work. They'd say 'to hell with it' and loaf through their performances. I think you'll agree that each member of our company tonight has given his best. Do me a favor. Go out and get more people to come here and see our show...
...programme is as follows: Stravinsky "Fireworks," Op. 4 Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la Stravinsky Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la Fee" Intermission Stravinsky Suite from the Ballet, "Petrouchka...
Soloists will be Herbert V. Kibrick '38, singing "O Gladsome Light," by A. T. Davison; Nixon de Tarnowsky '35 singing "Brennan on the Moor," an English folk song; Courtland Canby '36 and John H. Eric '37, who will sing "Le Miracle de Saint Nicolas," a French carol; and John L. Bishop '37, singing "Spanish Ladies," an English folk song...
...modern reader, Biographer Hackett's Francis will not seem a lead-wrapped effigy, the stiffly antiquated memorial of a far-off day. Pat and proper to modern ears comes the comment of one of his courtiers, as Francis lay dying: "The old sport is passing out!" ("Le vieux gallant...