Word: lends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gaulois demanded: "Under what aberration could the French citizens on the jury yesterday lend themselves to the glorification of anarchy? . . . In freeing Germaine Berthon they gave a premium to communism and anarchy." Le Gaulois thought that the case, instead of belittling the Royalists, shows France really needs a dictator if democratic juries cannot render a better verdict...
ANTIC HAY-Aldous Huxley-Doran ($2.00). Of Theodore Gumbril, sometime Oxford tutor, and his superb invention - Gumbril's Patent Pneumatic Trousers-They Protect the Lumbar Ganglia and Lend Incisive Poise to Businessmen. Of his extraordinary exploits in Love and Business, under the beaverish protection of a huge, artificial beard. Of Casimir Lypiatt, the boomingly futile would-be genius-and Shearwater, the scientist who investigated sweat- and P. Mercaptan, the snouty-faced amateur of rococo amours-and Myra Viveash with her expiring voice- and Zoe-and Emily-and Rosie-a whole horde of fantastic characters dancing the antic hay around...
...According to his own statement, Mr. Swinnerton received the manuscript from a friend of Daisy Ashford's while he was a reader in a London publishing house. He showed it to friends and then, after much difficulty, persuaded Sir J. M. Barrie to write a preface for it. To lend artistic verisimilitude to this unconvincing narrative, he adds fascinating details of Miss Ashford's subsequent career, and even fells how she spent her royalties...
...will conclude with a second performance of "Le Depute de Bombignac". This presentation of more than one play is a radical departure from the custom of the past, when but two performances of one play have regularly been given. This year a more elaborate repertory has been chosen to lend interest and variety to the performances of the Cercle Francais...
...Premier Theunis, who had leaned heavily on U. S. intervention, so heavily that Paris was considered unlikely to be able to restore his equilibrium in Brussels. In Italy, the solemn-faced Dictator, Premier Benito Mussolini, was " gravely disappointed," and IL Giornale d'ltalia, Rome journal, said: "We cannot lend our support to France's intransigent attitude upon this occasion." In Britain, the news was received with mixed feelings. The Rothermere press, of which the Hearst press in the U. S. is the prototype, declared for Premier Poincaré. The Observer, London Sunday paper, openly advocated a break with...