Word: petition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamber was not in session last week, but French Deputies meeting on the boulevards over long amber goblets of Pernod asked each other who was ce petit bonhomme Tourenq who was raising such a riot in the Ministry of Finance. Dust from the Oustric scandal (TIME, Dec. 29, 1930) was still in the air. What, if anything, did small Tourenq know...
Married. Gladys Dupuy, daughter of the late Senator Paul Dupuy who founded Le Petit Parisien (world's greatest daily circulation) and Excelsior which is now managed ably by his widow, the onetime Helen Browne of Chicago; and Prince Guy de Polignac, scion of France's famed, aristocratic champagne manufacturing family; in the socialite Church of Notre Dame de Grace de Passy in Paris; by the Archbishop of Reims (champagne district). To View many a splendorous gift (a portrait by Vigee-Lebrun, family busts and miniatures, a Stradivarius violin for the bride who fiddles ably) came members of the beau monde?...
...Petit Cemetiere at Verdun, on the eve of Armistice Day, 1934, a crowd of tourists is gathered. As they drift away, one of their number remains. Darkness falls about him. In the increasing gloom a great voice is heard, promising that the 20-year-old prayers of the bereaved shall be answered, that the fallen shall be resurrected, permitted to return to their homes. When the soldiers have crawled out of their graves and the news of the miracle is broadcast over the earth, pan- demonium is loosed. Capitalists protest their presence on economic grounds, churchmen declare the resurrection unholy...
First thing that Mr. Hearst's "best brain in America" managed to do after he had crutched his aching way into the hearing was to transform the quasi-grand jury into a petit jury of twelve good men and diffident. He gained the privilege of cross-examining his accusers and their witnesses. Also he gained the valuable opportunity of presenting his counter-arguments...
...Dale's collection of furniture and early American glass is nearly as good as her pictures. Chester Dale spent so much time and money in dealers' galleries that he has become a dealer himself. In 1928 he bought an interest in the Paris art firm of Georges Petit. As a collector-dealer Chester Dale has a stockbroker's memory, can astonish professionals by reciting instantly the market history of practically every important picture of the past 40 years...