Word: merli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debussy's La Mer by Piero Coppola and Symphony Orchestra (Victor, $5) - A valuable imported version of the subtly wrought sea sketches...
CHANCES-A. Hamilton Gibbs-Little, Brown ($2.50). Tom and Jack Ingleside, English adolescents, fitted into French College de St. Malo "like two young zebras introduced into a herd of reindeer." When they learned to say "mer-r-r-de" properly they were grudgingly accepted as decent sorts by the school bullies Lapostolle, Boutet, Verner, Cochois. Close as two fingers were the brothers; through school in France and Germany; through Oxford; through their London apprenticeship (Tom-law; Jack-engineering) until they met lovely artist Molly Prescott. To her, Tom became engaged. Then the War broke. Under fire Tom discovered Molly...
...Societe des Bains de Mer de Monaco (Sea Baths Society of Monaco), better known as the Monte Carlo gambling casino syndicate, has its own currency- round and oval celluloid chips (jetons) of various colors and denominations which the Casino sells for cash, to be used at the gaming tables and afterward redeemed for cash. Although strictly forbidden as legal tender outside the Casino, almost anyone nearby who frequents the Casino will accept them as such...