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...included in the Chautemps Cabinet, as Minister of Justice. To get somebody who is of the Left and yet knows something about handling the intricacies of State finance, Premier Chautemps had to reach all the way to Washington last week and pluck home to Paris his country's lynx-eyed, long-nosed Ambassador Georges Bonnet, a Radical Socialist who has several times been Finance Minister. Bonnet was sent to Washington last winter by Blum in the forlorn hope that he could wangle big money out of the New Deal. He rushed home last week aboard the Queen Alary...
Miscast as a morbidly jealous wife, Gertrude Lawrence manages to give her role a lynx-eyed dignity which is an excellent foil for the brittle vibrance of Miriam Hop kins...
...exhibition in Manhattan went 17 oil portraits, including one of Vice President John Nance Garner, by a young Washington artist named Azadia Walser Newman. A lynx-eyed redhead with a vague resemblance to Joan Crawford, Portraitist Newman is the daughter of a one-time Democratic National Committeeman, traces her ancestry on her mother's side directly to Charlemagne. Named Azadia after a section of Washington's Rock Creek Park which was once the family estate, she signs her paintings Azadia. Of Sitter Garner she recalled: "He called me 'little lady' and gave me a long talk...
...game he can still get with a full license includes three lions, leopard, cheetah, lynx, common hippopotamus, crocodile, hyena, wild dog, jackal, wart hog, badger, baboon, civet, buffalo, ordinary zebra, waterbuck, wildebeest, impala reedbuck, eland gazelle, the lesser kudu...
...other day at the zoo I saw some German children watching the play of doves and lambs. Their faces were radiant with happiness. Then I saw some Jewish children and their Jewish teachers. They had eyes only for the beasts of prey, lions and tigers and the slinking lynx! Why? Because blood calls to blood! For thousands of years the Jews have lived by preying upon other people...