Word: nouveau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...covered by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in her column "My Day," and the President's 82-year-old mother was sightseeing in Italy. None of their routine activities, however, constituted the President's major family distraction of the week. This took place at Cannes, France, whose Mayor Pierre Nouveau almost created an international incident by his description of the conduct of 21-year-old John Roosevelt, the President's youngest son, at Cannes' "Battle of Flowers...
...Mayor Nouveau, spying John Roosevelt-or his spitting image-going past in an open carriage, hurried down from his reviewing stand to give the city's distinguished guest a handsome bouquet, and an eloquent French welcome. The lad picked up a bottle of champagne from the carriage floor, squirted it full in his beaming face. While the gushing stream coursed down over the mayor's best suit of clothes, the gay youngster, taking the Battle of Flowers in too literal a sense, seized the proffered bouquet and brought it down vigorously on the donor's head...
Meanwhile, in Cannes Mayor Nouveau reiterated his story: ". . . I regret to say I am certain now it was Mr. Roosevelt." Upshot of the Cannes Battle of Flowers was a deluge of French editorials, night-club skits and radio songs; in the U. S. a comment by John Roosevelt's mother...
...Forges," by Georges Ohnet, is an unblushingly melodramatic tale of love between noblesse and bourgeoisie, and the dire effects of pride. The heaviness of the plot is compensated for, however, by skillful acting, pleasing repartee for those who can understand it, and a delightful delineation of a very comical nouveau-riche...
...great Napoleon, spent some 35 years attempting to become Emperor of the French. He finally succeeded. But according to Historian Philip Guedalla he should have died on the day of his coronation. For the story which Guedalla told in his The Second Empire is one of anticlimax, of a nouveau riche court, a theme for irony and wisecracks, the Napoleonic legend reduced to farce. "The gaslit tragedy of the Second Empire," Guedalla contemptuously called the regime which was born in intrigue in the early 1850's, found its Empress in the granddaughter of a foreign keeper of a wine...