Word: marcel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably the most famed cubist painting in the world is Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, which now hangs in the Hollywood home of Walter Conrad Arensberg. Last week Los An-geles newshawks discovered the artist on the same premises. France's Duchamp, 49, was making his first visit to California to see once again the picture that established his reputation...
...told by most critics, the story of Artist Marcel Duchamp is the story of a very brilliant young man with nothing much to say. Born in Rouen, the son of a well-to-do lawyer, he never had to struggle for a living, saw his two older brothers become respected, hard-working artists while he loafed at Julien's art school...
...Chamberlain; 2) at The Hague in 1929 between France's Briand and Britain's Philip Snowden. When Slocombe knew France's present Socialist Premier Leon Blum, he was still a literary boulevardier, fond of the applause of women and a crony of the late great writer Marcel Proust. Implicit in The Tumult & the Shouting is Slocombe's own realization that not only have his captains and kings departed but that their tumult was a weary gibberish, hardly destined to outlive them. Bravely he concludes that they had "a common touch of frustrated nobility ... of genius," that...
...foreign exchange speculators to tag as franc raiders, expelled one luckless Pole from the country as an example, discussed innumerable measures for the "defense'' of the franc, hoped it could pass on to the incoming "Popular Front" the unpleasant task of actual devaluation. Cried Finance Minister Marcel Régnier: "So long as I am Finance Minister there will be no measures restricting the gold standard. . . . We have ample reserves for our defense and the Bank of France possesses every means of action needed...
...Eighteen of the 23 Cabinet members were up for reelection. None was defeated outright, but at least four, Air Minister Marcel Deat, Minister of National Education Henri Guernut, Minister of Justice Yvon Delbos and Undersecretary for Technical Education Jules Julien, will have to stand the embarrassment of a runoff...