Word: petites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infernal circle of twentieth century art and changes his centre of gravity. ... In the view of Pierre Roy the picture ... is not a picturesque visible fiction. It is a second phase of life. It is also a reincarnation." M. George also describes M. Roy as a petit maître- a Little Master. By that M. George presumably means that Pierre Roy is not interested in the faces of prime ministers, prostitutes or the effects of the machine age, suitable subjects for Serious Artists. M. Roy is not. He is passionately interested in strips of colored paper, birds' eggs...
With a gleaming cylinder of silk hat balanced ceremoniously in his left hand, France's President Gaston Doumergue walked through the galleries of the Petit Palais on the Champs Elysees last week to open, dedicate and inspect the completed home of a collection appraised at $5,000,000 and offered to the city of Paris nine years ago. For nearly an hour he wandered through beautifully paneled rooms, expressing his presidential approval of cabinets of Sevres and Meissen ("Dresden") porcelain, jeweled watches, Battersea enamel, signed furniture from the great French ebenistes, a priceless series of tapestries from cartoons...
...rooms, surprised at the notion that they should want a bath. Local workmen appeared to be content with two rooms per family, accustomed to dropping in at the municipal baths when dirty. In a terminology more European than American the conclusion seemed to be that an office worker or petit bourgeois is about the lowest class of wage earner who might (possibly) or should (perhaps) have a bathroom in his home, but in Poland and Denmark many, many petits bourgeois have none. As for the suggestion that a Polish or Danish factory hand should own an automobile-that was called...
...Palazzo Vecchio to speak he was announced to the Florentine populace by two heralds in red and white medieval costume who put long brass trumpets to their lips and blew a blast heard a halfmile away. Last week Il Duce even carried his blasting to Paris. For the Petit Parisien he wrote an article attacking by implication Statesman Briand's dearest hobby and pet scheme, his projected European Union or "United States of Europe" (TIME, Sept...