Word: loup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ballyhoo. This was the Woolworth Donahue Cheetah. Before the show opened sports pages contained pictures of the cheetah and its trainer, Publisher Eltinge F. Warner of Field & Stream. When the show began, patrons viewed a cinema which showed the cheetah, by this time almost as legendary as a loup-garou, retrieving duck and pheasant...
...Hall, longtime a Council member of the Society for Psychical Research, has ideas about Christ that would wilt Materialist Moore. She leaves the historic Christ alone, merely shows, how, in one of his characters, a boy chances to reincarnate the psychic Christ. In the little Provengal town of Saint Loup, steeped in sunshine and the Catholic faith, lives Jousé Bénédit, a woodworker, and his wife Marie. Their first child they name Christophe, and he grows up to be a simple boy after the whole town's heart. Goundran, his fisherman godfather, shows...
...lead their quiet Provengal lives, disturbed only by weddings, births, funerals. Jan studies for the Church, but Christophe stays in his father's shop along with Anfos. His father has been almost crowded out of business by a shopkeeper from Paris, who opens a furniture store in Saint Loup, tries to modernize the town. Jousé fights these developments until a stroke of apoplexy lays him low. It seems that the Bénédit family will be ruined, but the War intervenes. Modernization in Saint Loup comes to an end. and the bankrupt shopkeeper has to work...