Word: moi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is the first time in history that any sovereign has presided at the opening of a conference of all the nations of the world. . . . "Messieurs les délégués, c'est avec trés profonde émotion que je vois autour de moi cette auguste assemblée qui parait si vaste mais qui représente une conception infiniment plus vaste-d'espoir et les voeux du monde entier. . . . Messieurs les délégués, je vous tend la main et de tout man coeur...
Many a catchy tune exported from Europe on phonograph records becomes in time a best-seller in the U. S. "Goodnight, Sweetheart," which Ray Noble wrote in London, ran such a course.* So did "Parlez-moi d'Amour," the fragile song which Lucienne Boyer introduced in Paris, and "Zwei Herzen im ¾ Takt" which plump, be-monocled Richard Tauber introduced in Berlin...
...London this winter, the bright young people of Mayfair danced nightly to "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "You're Blase," smart tunes made right in London. In Paris, people go to swank Monseigneur especially to hear Lucienne Boyer sing "Parlez-Moi d'Amour," a.soft, fragile French song. In Berlin Tenor Richard Tauber, the monocle man. is making "Du bist mein Traum" a worthy successor to "Dein ist mein Ganzes Herz...
...popular records made abroad. London has sent several outstanding numbers: "The Pied Piper" arranged with a catchy, recurring ^'piper" motif; a good dance record of "You're Blase" and a two-piano version neatly embroidered by Peggy Cochrane and William Walker. From Paris there is Lucienne Boyer's "Parlez-Moi d'Amour" which took a prize last year for being the best popular record made in France; and colored Josephine Baker's "J'ai Deux Amours." From Germany there is a Marlene Dietrich record, "Jonny" on one side, "Peter" on the other, for people who like naughty lyrics...
...Author. Though young (29), "Daniel-Rops" (a pseudonym) has written four books, has won two prizes. His first, Notre inquietude, won the Paul Fiat; l'Ame obscure took second place in the Goncourt; Two Men in Me (Deux homines en moi) won last year's Gringoire Prize. He is a professor of literature at a French University...