Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BOYS IN THE BACK ROOM-Jules Romains-McBrlde ($2). Long-winded Novelist Romains takes time off from his big work-in-progress (Men of Good Will, TIME, July 13 et ante) to write this rather painfully jolly interlude about some bright young Parisian pals who loved to drink and play intricate practical jokes...
...first meeting since Premier Blum enfranchised the Bank's 40,000 hitherto voteless stockholders. Sole control previously rested in the potent hands of the 200 largest shareholders-"the 200 Families of France" (TIME, May 18, et seq.). With a turn-out of no less than 1,300 excited Parisian and provincial shareholders, the meeting was as raucous as a stormy session of the Chamber of Deputies. It took Governor Emile Labeyrie three hours to get through his scholarly 90-minute report, so often was he interrupted by catcalls, loud expressions of dissent and ironic cries of "Vive la Banque...
...Gauguin scraped together enough money to take him to Tahiti. Before he left he wrote a loving letter to Mette, said they would be married again when he came back. His Parisian mistress, who was about to have a baby, was sorry to see him go. In Tahiti Gauguin found himself. He lived like a native, worked like a man whose days were numbered. In a letter to Mette he said: "You are right; I am an artist. There is nothing stupid about you I am a great artist and I know it." He returned to France after two years...
...gentleman of flawless Harvard accent and Parisian mien is Dr. Vikyuin Wellington Koo, the great Chinese diplomat who is now Minister to France, who held the like post in Washington and London, who has dominated Chinese diplomacy at every World Conference from Versailles to the London Economic, was acting Premier of China for eight months a decade ago and who last week at Geneva presided over the 96th session of the League Council as its president. ¶ Fresh from Madrid arrived the Council's special Medical Commission of two French doctors and one Polish to report "the health...
Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo), Parisian demimondaine, breaks with her protector (Henry Daniell) when she falls in love with young Armand Duval (Robert Taylor), breaks with Duval when his father tells her she is spoiling his career, finally dies of consumption complicated by a broken heart. For modern audiences this story lacks one element: surprise. Its situations, from the one in which Armand first shows his love for Marguerite by returning to her a handkerchief which he has kept in his pocket ever since the day six months before when she dropped it in a theatre, to the one in which...