Word: piquantes
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...announced that a painful ear was the sole reason for the royal migration, and after this had been tinkered by a Viennese otologist His Majesty went, not to Rome, but on a brief, face-saving visit to Prague, Czechoslovakia. While there he did nothing more remarkable than pay a piquant visit to Arms and the Man, a Shavian drama which quite baselessly represents the Bulgarians as a backward, bathless, totally uncultured people. For one night, in honor of the jilted Tsar of the Bulgars, the scene of Arms and the Man was announced to be laid in Albania...
...surmising explorer Cor-tez?he descends upon a cinema company taking pictures in the Mexican mountains. To his castle on the crags he carries the stately leading lady (Helen Baxter) and numerous others, including a cameraman's little fiancee (Dorothea Chard), who is thus far the season's most piquant and delectable brunette. The blonde so beguiles Cortez that his Castilian nobility prompts him to propose. Then she admits that she has only been scheming to make him set the others free. He is too proud to punish her, so the pair are forced to separate until the third...
...Library of Louvain, built with U. S. cash (TIME, Oct. 17, 1927, et seq.). Even amid the excitement of campaigning to become President of the U. S., Herbert Hoover found time to air his strong view about the inscription. Last week that view was overruled by a Belgian court. Piquant was the triumph of the new library's U. S. architect, potent and temperamental Whitney Warren, famed in Manhatten alike for his ability and for appearances at socialite functions in a blue silk shirt and bulging white scarf...
...Vanity Fair and other smartcharts Author Keene's piquant stories have been appearing side by side with more mature work. Mostly the characters are English in names and dialect while the style has more than an air of Russian futility. This compilation contains Author Keene's idea of his best stories to date. Typical is "The Latch-Key," a story wherein a girl returns to her apartment on the eve of her marriage to find a discarded lover's compromising revenge: suicide in her supposedly virginal...
...less lustrous Geraldine, a noble act described in the play as a "virgin complex." The audience is likewise not surprised when, deprived of Geraldine, he goes honeymooning with her sister Elizabeth, the clever virgin. The veteran Robert Warwick is properly apparelled and deep-voiced as Chandler. A small, piquant brunette named Sylvia Sidney makes the wisecracking Elizabeth thoroughly fresh and annoying...