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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disent Ies grenouilles? ("What say the frogs [of Paris]?'') was a common phrase among courtiers of Louis XVI at Versailles just before the French Revolution, referred to the fact that the Paris rabble were supposed to live like frogs in slime. Eighteenth Century Englishmen, suspecting that their French enemies ate frogs' legs, called them contemptuously "frogs...
...wane, Republican police were suddenly ordered out to take down all Sacred Heart banners "to avert further rioting." Only one defender of the faith was discovered. As a shouting crowd swept along the Gran Via. a man suddenly arose from a cafe table crying "Viva Cristo Key! Long Live Christ the King!'' They made for him, but he fought them off with powerful squirts from a pale blue soda siphon. They wrecked the restaurant instead...
...investigation of short selling last spring. Director of 47 companies, he cultivates friends assiduously, is said to keep a card index file of every person he meets. In his luxurious Manhattan apartment he collects elephants of ivory, ebony, stone and metal, owns 2,200. He once had two live elephants carried to the roof of the old Waldorf-Astoria to entertain his guests...
...undergraduate listeners was Ann Hyde Andrews, whom he afterwards married. They went to Bermuda, spent five years there writing and farming. In an old house in Somerset Parish which Allen thinks was built by a retired pirate (its original name was "Felicity Haul"), he saw few tourists, lived cheaply, wrote most of Anthony Adverse's 500,000 words. Now back in the U. S., he is temporarily resting from his labors, looking for a place to live...
Authoress Jameson is not one who enjoys writing. Says she: "I would rather not write at all than write as I do, to live. . . . I am not what you call a born writer, and I should have been much happier as an engineer. . . . Each book now represents so many months of hard bitter effort and no moments of satisfaction." But she despises writers (especially popular ones) who have no social conscience or are deliberately sentimental: "Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions...