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Word: moi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage indicates that Hammerstein is resorting to the depths of sentimental attraction. It does not take much talent, nor is it particularly clever, to get a response from an audience by using large numbers of cute kids. It seems as if the two children who sang "Dites-Moi" in "south Pacific" were fruitful, and multiplied...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Playgoer | 3/8/1951 | See Source »

Beatings for Truth. In this isolated part of the country, the old-fashioned "L'Etat c'est moi" seems to provide, for the time being at least, an effective answer to Communism. It is doubtless too medieval to work in more complex conditions elsewhere in Indo-China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Arms & the Bishops | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...every drink that Chaim Soutine refused, Jules Pascin downed twelve. Ulcers did not bother him, though his overworked liver did. In 1930, when he was 45, it became clear that his liver would soon give out altogether. Pascin slashed his wrists, wrote "Lucy, pardonnez-moi" in blood on the wall, and, for good measure, hanged himself. The girl friend of the message, Lucy Krogh, subsequently opened an art gallery. Last week she staged a retrospective show of Pascin's paintings and drawings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hot & Heavy | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

Questions & Answers. Three years ago, on one of his rare vacations, hard-working Marcel Boussac visited the U.S. In Kentucky's Blue Grass country, he saw Calumet Farm's famed Whirlaway, the 1941 triple crown winner. Said Boussac: "C'est pour moi" This summer, he completed a deal to lease Whirlaway for a three-year stud assignment in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: French Invasion | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...Fall from Fortune. A few days later, on a telephoned tip, two Paris police inspectors spotted a dignified, dapper little father walking his boys (age 4 and 12) in the sunny Bois. They waited till he was sitting pina?" they alone at a asked. cafe. "C'est moi," "Monsieur answered Della-le petit gros, "I'll follow you. But please don't tell my boys what I've done." At police headquarters the inspectors found that their prisoner was a Corsican refugee from the police of Marseille, who wanted him for the murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Polite Pair | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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