Word: midi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepared to sail for America for a visit to Indian reservations and to the Cheyenne rodeo in July. When he returns, the Club de Lasso may found a dude ranch. so that Parisians may ride hard across the mesas of the Loire Valley or along the buttes of the Midi...
...gone to her first ball, a card dance, when she was sixteen, and each of her partners with true Gallic gallantry had told her they loved her. Five she finds alive, a priest, a shyster, a hairdresser, an epileptic, and the mayor of a sunny little town in the Midi...
...voluptuous and all but perfection in technique-had an immense influence on the composers of the early nineteen hundreds. Besides a picture of an incurable Bohemian, Biographer Thompson offers a systematic critical study of all of his compositions, from the slightest piano piece to L'Après-midi d'un Faune and Pelleas et Melisande...
...France all the railroads lose money but the Government, which actually operates only Ouest-Etat and Alsace-Lorraine, pays all the losses. In fact, Finance Minister Vincent Auriol announced last week, France's privately controlled railroads- biggest of which are the Paris-Lyons- Mediterranee, Paris-Orleans, Est, Midi and Nord-have a joint capital of only 8,000,000,000 francs (about $352,000,000) but already owe the State 25,000,000,000 (about $1,100,000,000). Only way to clean up this mess, he said, was for the Government to take over every mile of track...
...Monte Carlo Ballet Russe is to conclude its Boston run with performances at the Opera House tonight and tomorrow afternoon and evening. Saturday night's program is especially interesting, including a revival of Nijinsky's "L'Apres Midi d'un Faune" and a new ballet set to the music of Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique...