Word: mon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the unsympathetic woman offered him the comforts of her home, the angel accepted. The arrangement was not altogether happy. "After all," wrote Balzac to his great friend, Madame Hanska, "she is a man and wants to be a man ... I am extremely-male myself. ..." She called tuberculous Chopin: "Mon cher cadavre (My dear corpse)." Comrade Sand's proletarian friends disgusted the pianist. "Chopin was pushed more and more into the role of a delicate, sensitive, and suffering wife, continually brutalized by a busy husband and his circle of coarse friends." One cold autumn morning, sick, coughing, wrapped...
...Harvard's President James Bryant Conant approved, provided the bill deferred training and service for medical and scientific students and other technicians more useful outside a conscript camp. Wartime Generalissimo John J. Pershing testified by letter that such a bill would have saved the U. S. men and mon ey in World War I, reserved approval of the eight-month period (Army men would like at least a year) and the home defense provisions...
...Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. took one look at the markets (where Ward com mon closed the week at 37!) and pigeon holed plans to sell a $31,000,000 issue of common' stock, at $40 a share...
Died. Julie Daudet, 93, devoted widow of the late great French author Alphonse Daudet (Lettres de Mon Moulin, Tartarin de Tarascon), mother of French Royalist Leader Leon Daudet, herself a writer of books, articles; of old age; in Paris...
...Edinburgh lawyer: their first child, a daughter; on the Carnegie estate, Skibo Castle, Scotland. Once reminisced an old Skibo servant: "I'll not forget the way he [Carnegie] looked up at the castle with that queer smile o' his. 'Steel built yon hame,' the auld mon said, 'but it's love that'll keep it together when I'm called away...