Word: petits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time. To set forth the latter fact spectacularly to France and the world seemed to Henry de Jouvenel, brilliant French diplomat, journalist and Italophile, an admirable way for Italy and France to clasp hands more tightly against Adolf Hitler. Last week he had assembled in Paris' Petit Palais a collection of Italian old masters that was in fact "the greatest the world has ever seen...
...chief culprit,and since Paris is now flirting with an alliance with Moscow, the prosecution proceeded half-heartedly and Judge Revol seemed content to let his spy trial become a baby show, with beaming French policemen stumbling about with bottles, diapers, rattles and wraps, chortling: "Ah, le petit! Now he sucks his thumb...
Third speaker from abroad was Mme Paul Dupuy of Paris, who was born Helen Browne of Manhattan. Out of a French finishing school, Miss Browne married Paul Dupuy, son of the publisher of Le Petit Parisien. Three weeks after M. Dupuy's death in 1927 his widow was installed in his office, learning to boss the largest group of publications in France. Since then, she has trained her two sons to succeed her. Mme Dupuy entertains lavishly at Versailles and at her apartment in Passy, sports the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor. Her message to the Conference...
...drama that colored his last as he admits "In Russia I had witnessed a proletarian revolution. It had been everything that individual likes and dislikes may choose to call it. But it had been on the grand scale. It had not been petty. Here I was assisting in a petit-bourgeois revolution with all the pretentiousness and some of the ridiculousness inseparable from every petit-bourgeois revolution...
Married. Dorothy Constance Spreckels, 21, daughter of the late Adolph Bernard Spreckels, California sugarman; and Jean Dupuy, 24, son of Mme Paul Dupuy, French newspaper and magazine owner (Le Petit Parisien, Excelsior); in Manhattan...