Word: marcell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vichy had recommissioned the 26,500-ton battleship Dunkerque and made it ready for action. In French North Africa and Dakar, German "technicians" were reported arriving by the score. In Paris, Marcel Déat, ablest spokesman for collaboration, urged open war against General de Gaulle to recover the lost colonies...
...music was by a Frenchified German Jew (Offenbach), the sets and costumes by a Manhattan-French commercial artist (Marcel Vertés.) the hats by chic U.S. milliners (John-Frederics), the choreography by a veteran Russian (Michel Fokine), the leaping and cavorting by a foreign legion of nationalities(the Ballet Theatre). Such was the ballet Bluebeard, a smash hit whenit was put on last week in Manhattan...
...gave the U.S. its first real taste of revolutionary European painting, Katherine Dreier was converted from an ardent suffragist into the most ardent U.S. booster of artistic revolution. A mediocre painter herself, she traipsed massively through the ateliers and studios of Paris encouraging, propagandizing, buying. With famed French Painter Marcel Duchamp (Nude Descending the Stairs} and U.S. Abstract Photographer Man Ray, she formed the Socieété Anonyme, first society for collecting and spreading modern art in the U.S., started her tremendous collection under its name. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, the Société Anonyme...
Bogota, the capital, has more bookshops than restaurants. The deputies "read their poems aloud to one another, and talk about the quantum theory." Gunther sat down to his first dinner hoping to hear about the Fifth Column and the Panama Canal, "but no one would talk about anything except Marcel Proust...
France. The best-known rebel in Europe was saved from death. Young Paul Collette, who in Paris six weeks ago wounded Pierre Laval and Marcel Déat, was condemned to death by a Vichy court. Marshal Henri Philippe Petain commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. Many observers of Vichy thought that the Marshal, knowing the rebellious temper of suppressed French millions, was too shrewd to risk the execution of a boy who had tried to kill two of Hitler's best French friends...