Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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20TH CENTURY-FOX movies will appear on TV. For $2,000,000 plus a percentage of all income over $75,000 per picture, Fox will lease 52 films, many first-rank (Les Miserables, Ox-Bow Incident, How Green Was My Valley), to National Telefilm Associates for showing in U.S. and Canada...
...Paris, placing a telephone call is often a deeply traumatic experience. Parisian operators (les telephonistes) are not the sweet-voiced type that U.S. subscribers have come to expect. Les telephonistes harangue callers with invective, cut them off constantly, allow ringing signals to keep blasting even after parties are connected, often forget entirely about completing a call or calling back. Long-suffering Paris subscribers were taking dubious consolation last week in the news that the terrible-tempered telephone girls are probably in worse shape than the targets of their abuse. After 24 months of studying some 120 operators...
...work, les telephonistes are apt to bolt hysterically from their switchboard positions, burst into tears, faint or have dizzy spells. Pop-offs are not always directed at subscribers. Many operators talk back sharply to the supervisors. The prodding produces fierce competition among the operators to handle the most calls and show the best record. Incoming calls may produce heated arguments among half a dozen operators, several plugging in at once...
Byron Spoke English. Victor Hugo in the Channel Islands is one of the rarest interludes of literary history. By day the master poured out broadsheets of superb invective, streams of immortal poetry, completed his titanic Les Miserables, as well as other novels. By night he seduced the flower of Guernsey's chambermaids and, in table-tapping seances, had long discussions with "Moliere, Shakespeare, Anacreon, Dante, Racine, Marat, Charlotte Corday, Latude, Mahomet, Jesus Christ, Plato, Isaiah . . . the Dove of the Ark, Balaam's Ass." All these apparitions agreed that Hugo was acting for the best; many spoke in excellent...
...following article appeared on April 11 in the Cairo newspaper, "La Bourse Egyptienne." It was taken from the first of two articles published in the monthy French literary magazine, "Les Lettres Nouvelles," under the title of "L'Ete Americain." The author attended the Summer School here last year and upon his return to France wrote what is apparently a very popular and easy-to-sell type of report. "La Bourse Egyptienne" headlined the article: "Harvard University, New Convent where alchol is prohibited but psychoanalysis is familiar, and where students work for the pleasure of earning money." The editor printed...