Word: michels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...readers know French Novelist Roger Vercel for his Tides of Mont St.-Michel, a fictional Cook's Tour of the famed medieval island abbey off Brittany. Less ambitious but just as colorful is the latest Vercel novel published in the U.S.-the story of a rich, gone-to-seed Breton family who live at Plangomeur, a mansion not far from Mont St.-Michel...
Citizens of all sorts and sizes have read The Education of Henry Adams, his Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, and the several collections of Adams' witty, cranky, sardonic letters (TIME, Jan. 20). But the History of the United States during the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison has been left almost wholly to the professionals-for the simple and ample reason that it is nine volumes long...
...White Charger is a novel about Michel, an illegitimate son. Father spends most of his time at sea, mother spends most of hers smoking opium, so Michel soon learns to look after himself. He grows into a talented pianist and crooner -but so indifferent to the life of post-World War I that he scarcely bothers to sing for his supper. Women-princesses, chambermaids, davies, chorines-are all bowled over by Michel's fascinating indifference. At 25, Michel is the western world's most bored Casanova, married to an aging American moneybag and hopelessly in love with...
...Aragon tries earnestly to explain that Michel's gigolory results from his being at heart a frustrated knight-errant in today's ignoble world. She redeems his calloused soul by making him die nobly in World War II. But three-fourths of The White Charger is simply a listing of Michel's tedious romantic conquests. Only the most dogged reader will remember, by the end, just what made Elisabeth different from Mary, or from Marjorie, and Riri, and Gisėle, and Irene, and Francine, and Nicole, and Mariana, and Lu-cette, and Lily-to mention only...
...back to the ways of peace; the Channel swimmer was on the job again. Last week a 6-ft., 225-lb. Chilean named Jorge Berroeta set out to swim the English Channel. He gulped some of his secret-formula soup, a recipe he hides from his trainer, Georges Michel, who set the Channel record in 1926. Then he plunged into the icy water at Cap Gris Nez, bound for Dover...