Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayer argued for a few minutes longer. M. Schuman said firmly: "If you will excuse me, I have not shaved for two days. I would like to shave...
Against the Wall. The vigor of M. Schuman's counterattack surprised many who had thought that Charles de Gaulle was the only strong man in France, and who were therefore expecting De Gaulle's quick ascent to power. If the Socialists stood firm behind Schuman, De Gaulle might not be needed for quite a while...
...Well, this was the why of it. A year ago pretty British Protestant Mrs. Trundle, the Blazers' co-M.F.H., had divorced her husband in Britain and married a Mr. James Hanbury. Last month, soon after Mrs. Hanbury had been reelected co-M.F.H., the Roman Catholic bishop of Clonfert tacked a notice on the gate of Coorheen, closing his grounds to the hunt. The farmers followed the bishop's lead. "It went hard with us to interfere with the Blazers," said Larry Costello, "but there is a big matter at stake and we must stand...
...made Camillien feel good. While congratulatory wires and letters piled up on his desk, he lolled in his high-backed chair, chain-smoked, outlined his formula for political success. "I'm good-natured but quick-tempered," said he. "Also they tell me I am bighearted. I will never leave a man in a poor fix if I can help it. No one leaves my office without some hope. But I don't mince words. Sometimes I tell them it's their own damned fault they got into trouble in the first place. Then I try to help...
...human. "I never have them pose," he says. "We just talk, about everything in the world. You see, sculpture is another language altogether; it has nothing to do with words. And the minute I start to work I feel this other language between me and the person I'm 'busting': a language of form. I feel it in my hands. Some of my busts are novels you might say, and some short stories. The one I did of D. H. Lawrence was a short story, because he died a week after I began...