Word: marcel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Works of Couperin, Strauss, Debussy, and Faure; Marcel Bardon, cellist, and John Cobb, pianist; Holmes Living Room...
ACCORDING TO the the Guinness Book of World Records, the longest sentence in the world does not belong to Marcel Proust, but to Nicholas Murray Butler, former president of Columbia University. The sentence, 4284 words long, is in his annual president's report for 1942-43, President Bok's Annual President's Report for 1973-74 can make no such claims to a world record for verbosity or anything else, unless there's one for most yawns elicited from a single text. But Bok's report, a sort of State of the University address presented to the Board of Overseers...
...today are only the first step," said Giscard. In fact, they were really a second step. Last January he shook up France's military leadership by naming Yvon Bourges, 53, a tough, energetic and sometimes abrasive Gaullist, as Minister of Defense to replace the ineffectual Jacques Soufflet. General Marcel Bigeard, 59, a paratroop hero and one of France's most decorated soldiers, was named Bourges's deputy...
...Died. Marcel Grandjany, 83, French-born harpist and professor at the Juilliard School of Music; in Manhattan. Grandjany's gifts as performer and composer helped raise the harp from a musical decoration to a full-fledged solo instrument. Among his compositions: The Colorado Trail, Children's Hour, and Fantasy for Harp...
Quite legitimately, American manufacturers often attempt to trump foreign rivals by pointing out that U.S. products have been battle-tested in Viet Nam or the Middle East. The French, however, consistently exert the most impressive sales efforts. To complete a sale of Mirages to Australia, Marcel Dassault arrived accompanied by French military officials and a senior director of the Bank of France; later a bevy of French film stars were flown...