Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aicadre's asthma clinic at Deux Estaings crowd many sufferers, hypochondriacal and real. The doctor tells them flatly to help themselves?he has little use, though considerable pity, for human beings sick or well. Even Laure, his peasant-girl wife, finds him unapproachable. Only her maman, Madame Teterger, a closefisted harridan who runs the clinic and everybody in it, dares face him. When, over the extravagant construction of a new wing to the clinic, she reads him the riot act, he turns away in scorn, falls off the balcony to the cement ground floor...
...Author. Born in 1876 in the peasant region of Namdalen, north of Trondjem, Norway, Author Duun has written exclusively of the life of his native parish, though his books are far from parochial. His earlier works (Three Friends, The Good Conscience} were preparatory to his six-volume Juviking epic that follows that family's affairs from times when Progenitor Per Anders fights hand to hand with the Devil, to his descendants' struggles with more modern devilish banks and herring-oil factories. Highly prized by his fellow Norwegians (many of whom read him in English translation rather than...
Into a Montparnasse bar strode pear-shaped Paul Poiret, famed coutourier, wearing a light woolen jacket, black sash, Japanese peasant's hat. With him was Artist Guy Arnaud, Legion of Honor man. Two Englishwomen giggled at M. Poiret's costume. Offended for his friend. Artist Arnaud rebuked them: "Mesdames, you have insulted a genius." Up rose one James Clark, U. S. escort of the Englishwomen. "Monsieur," said he, "you have insulted two ladies." Legionnaire Arnaud challenged Clark to a duel with rapiers. Mr. Clark, demanding his right as the challenged party, stipulated fists. M. Arnaud replied that if Mr. Clark...
...following will be the Pops program at 8.30 o'clock this evening in Symphony Hall. "On the Mall" marchGoldman "Poet and Peasant" overture Suppe Austrian Anthem Hydn Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms "Espana" rhapsody Chabrier "In the Spring", Grieg Fourth Symphony finale Tchaikovsky "Fortune Teller" selection Herbert "Volga Boatmen's Song" Arr. by Jacchia "Panaderos" dance Glazounov
...Peasant-born Albert Lebrun, the engineer recently elected President of France (TIME, May 16), sat owl-solemn through a Cabinet session last week, stroked his wide black mustache from time to time as Premier Tardieu formulated plans "to keep a much closer watch on all foreigners in France or entering France." Lest U. S., British or German tourists be scared away it was elaborately hinted that Russians, Italians and Spaniards will be the chief objects of scrutiny...