Word: loaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Here with a loaf of Bread beneath the Bough...
...only a monstrous piece of detective fiction but also the tragedy of a man's struggle with his own fate. It starts when Jean Valjean (Fredric March), represented as a deserving member of the Paris unemployed, is sentenced to the galleys for ten years for stealing a loaf of bread. There he first encounters Javert (Charles Laughton), the police inspector whose morbid fixation on the letter of the law makes him, as long as he lives, Valjean's Nemesis. When they meet again years later, Valjean is the beneficent mayor of a prosperous provincial town. But that makes...
When the last curtain fell on a performance of L'Aiglon in Pittsburgh, freckled Actress Eva Le Gallienne stepped across the footlights. Said she: "Some stars and actors, seeing this small house, wouldn't work. They'd say 'to hell with it' and loaf through their performances. I think you'll agree that each member of our company tonight has given his best. Do me a favor. Go out and get more people to come here and see our show...
André Maurois, like a week-end guest who hopes to be asked again, is unfailingly gracious about England and the English. This half-loaf appreciation of Dickens is sliced thin, á L'Anglais, buttered on the right side. But U. S. readers who like whole-wheat will raise an eyebrow at the very first slice: "In every English-speaking country Dickens is still the great popular writer." André ' whole case for Dickens is an argumentum ad hominem. Perhaps Dickens had a streak of Pecksniff in his character but, asks Maurois, "Who hasn...
They did not. As the months passed everyone in Athens heard that the gangster responsible for the attack was one Georgios Karathanasios. He continued to loaf around Athens cafés puffing a hubble-bubble and fingering a string of amber beads, boasting his immunity. Last week Statesman Venizelos' wounded chauffeur and six retired army officers, members of Statesman Venizelos' private bodyguard called the Republican Defense League, seized Gangster Karathanasios and delivered him to the highly embarrassed warden of the Athens jail...