Word: penseurs
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...never regained. For another, it almost entirely lacks the pretentious, gassy, self-indulgent writing which has done so much to mar Odets' later work. He wrote Awake and Sing as an engrossed child of the theatre, before he went honeymooning with the cosmos, or confused himself with Le Penseur of Rodin...
...general manager who will figuratively shovel out these tons of bonds may be a "boy"' but is ripe in tradition. King Louis XV of France was "carved" (as His Majesty expressed it) by Surgeon François Quesnay (ancestor) whom the monarch nicknamed Le Penseur for his philosophical cast of mind. The present M. Quesnay might be called a "career man" of the Bank of France. He functioned as chief French technical advisor last year when Rumania's Leu was being stabilized. At the first and second Hague Conference he prepared the whole documental background of the French...
...proper order, 1928, however, will have no conscientious scruple for parsimony. Forty-two percent of the seniors never drink, and it is rumored that this year the funds, instead of being used for a senior picnic, will purchase two heroic statues for the steps of Widener Rodin's 'Le Penseur,' representing Concentration and one of G. K. Chesterton, symbolic of Distribution. Surely the freshmen must contribute generously to such a cause...
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