Word: petition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOVES OF A BLONDE. Slight but abrim with humorous insights, this delightful Czech comedy observes what happens when a pudding-faced pretty from a small town succumbs to a callow young piano player and follows him to his petit-bourgeois home in Prague...
Such caveats may be too harsh. Just how tremendous his lifetime's accomplishment has been will be best seen next month when Paris' Grand Palais and Petit Palais, in a birthday salute, opens the largest Picasso show ever assembled, with 800 works, including 100 from Picasso's own collection. Will he attend? "Go to Paris?" says Picasso. "But I go there only to see my dentist. At the moment, I haven't a toothache...
Thus, many grand and petit juries in the Fifth Circuit cannot take valid action until a constitutional method is available. Katzenbach said...
...Queen in 1741, only to take it back a few years later and install Madame de Pompadour in the apartment next to his. An amateur botanist, he made its garden famous throughout Europe for its hothouse pineapples, coffee and figs. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette preferred the nearby, smaller Petit Trianon, but this did not spare either building when revolutionaries carted off their contents...
...would. And so, to a considerable degree, it did. Like many others before him, Maurois reckons up the bill that Balzac's output-97 novels and novellas, scores of stories, articles and plays, 6,000,000 words-owes to the author's experiences. The son of a petit bourgeois whose roots ran deep in France's soil, Balzac never really escaped his origins. Of life he demanded money, love and magic -the themes of all his books-and spent them faster than they came in. He dreamed of the $100,000 pineapple crop he would harvest from...