Word: marquisate
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More Woo. Having reached at least the start of an understanding on trade with the U. S., Argentina also prepared last week to thrash out its problems with Great Britain. Owner of vast Argentine holdings, Great Britain is also Argentina's best single customer, hopes to remain so if...
The French Department should make this film required movie-going, and that is no slur upon its entertainment value. In almost every scene there is a slice of provincial France. The earnest, effeminate priest and the super-rationalistic school-teacher involve themselves in endless, fantastic arguments. A two-for-a...
Through his uncouth boorishness shines the "tendresse" that made, and permeates, the whole picture. The priest who retrieves the sinful wife on piggyback, and the wine, women and horse-loving marquis fill the gaps in whatever there is of social parody. Somehow "The Baker's Wife" leaves you with the...
But Authoress Sand was by no means finished. Suddenly at 46 she took to writing plays. Her Le Marquis de Villemer was a smash hit. Her anticlerical novel, Mademoiselle La Quintinie, was a bestseller. Napoleon III read all her books, went to the first nights of all her plays his...
Keen little Marquis Kido has long been called "a sharp pocketknife" in the waistcoat of Prince Konoye. With great speed, the Marquis whittled for Konoye a wooden sword of authority-by the entirely unprecedented step of summoning an advisory conference including six former Premiers (including Prince Konoye himself, who held...