Word: le
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quebec City's Laval University, where he earned his law degree, Louis' work prompted the rector to make a flat prediction: "Le petit St. Laurent ira loin [Little St. Laurent will go far]." He won the Governor General's Medal and was offered a Rhodes Scholarship. Strong-willed young Louis, with plans already made to practice law, turned down the scholarship, went to work for one of Quebec's leading lawyers...
...Le brave was elected...
...story was familiar, at least in outline: Librettist Eric (Let's Make an Opera) Crozier had freely adapted his comic libretto from Guy de Maupassant's Le Rosier de Madame Husson. A bumpkin is chosen King of the May because in the village there is no girl virtuous enough to be Queen, eventually winds up on a roaring toot. To this, Composer Britten hitched a witty, somewhat Peter and the Wolf-ish score, in which each instrument seemed to portray (or mock) a character on stage. There were other Britten trademarks: well-fitting songs and exciting ensembles. Even...
Thin, bristling Police Commissioner Jean Eglenne of Cannes announced importantly: "We must reconstruct the crime." The criminals were still at large, but the victims willingly played their parts. The tubby Aga Khan, his pretty wife, a maid and chauffeur trooped out of the Aga's villa at Le Cannet, near Cannes, and showed just what had happened in the Riviera sunshine one day last week...
...letter of protest to the district attorney, presently found himself on trial for having "counseled, aided and abetted" another person in evading draft regulations. Though Gara claimed that he had merely upheld the student's right to follow his conscience, Toledo's District Court Judge Frank Le Blond Kloeb took an unsentimental view of the matter. Judge Kloeb instructed the jury to find Gara guilty if what he had said to the Bluffton student "had a tendency to encourage or cause [him] to continue his refusal to register." Larry Gara drew another jail sentence of 18 months, which...