Word: les
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...les Deputes were presented last week with the 1932 budget which, to the ingenuous eye, balanced. A little rapid pencil work by Deputies of the Left showed that it did nothing of the sort. There was an actual deficit of between $160,000,000 and $280,000,000 hidden by such devices as counting only nine months for expenditures but twelve months for receipts, and including Reparations payments which Germany obviously will not make because of the Hoover Moratorium...
...Punch & Judy theatres were set up by tail-coated, gold-buttoned lackeys. The contestants appeared: a M. Jane, a M. Robert Désarthis. M. Jane, a modernist, introduced into his performance such persons as Charlie Chaplin and Bicot, the French cinema comedian. MM. les Sénateurs and their children would have none of him. Puppeteer Désarthis, an entrepreneur who had already had many a successful season farther south in the Pare de Montsouris, triumphed...
...Borah Night the Trocadéro was packed with French patriots, hottest among them being the blue-shirted Fascists of Les Jeunesses Patriotes and Paris's stalwart, cane-swinging young Royalists, Les Camelots du Roi. When Senator Borah stood up to broadcast from quiet Washington he little suspected that wildest pandemonium was already loose beneath the Trocadéro loudspeakers that were to shout his words. A message from the Archbishop of Canterbury which Viscount...
Rene Clair, director of the film "Le Million," also supervised the production of "Sous les Toits de Paris," and is noted for his subordination of dialogue to pantomine. The plot of the film is chiefly that of a lost lottery ticket and of the frantic efforts to recover...
...months ago the French Government suddenly was made to realize that the old French operettas were right: Corsica is full of bandits. The immediate occasion was when a grizzled bandit chief named Caviglioli raided the new hotels at Guagno les Bains, Corsica's latest resort, and shot dead a garage keeper from Ajaccio who had popped his head, cuckoo-clock wise, out of his window and shrilled for help (TIME, Sept...