Word: presse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sophistication suited to her flexible, quick voice and the knowing angle of her head in its paintbrush swirl of blonde hair (The Gold Diggers, Grounds for Divorce, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney). She has managed to withstand the floodlight of attention which the press of three continents turned loose on her honeymoon abroad, still in progress. There was one crucial night at Cap D'Antibes when she and Gilbert argued about what to do after dinner-he for staying in, she for going outa night spent so distinctly to her own taste that...
...French Government appeared to grow steadily more apprehensive lest the U. S. and Britain were drawing too closely into disarmament cahoots. Fear that Italy and France may be brusquely dictated to by Britain and the U. S. at the Five Power Naval Conference was increasingly manifest in the Paris press. Said the Journal des Debats...
...alleviate British unemployment by selling British goods, chiefly coal, to loyal Canadians, had been slightly impaired by reports of a big new coal field right in Canada (TIME, Sept. 23). Nevertheless "Jim" Thomas was pleased with himself and as the Duchess of Atholl docked he said to the press: "I feel sure that the sequel will be that Canada will buy from us a large amount of what she is now importing from other countries...
...hands of the Philistines"-as libertarians of the press viewed it-were delivered the Boston Herald and Traveler. Trustees of International Paper Co., whose purchase of these and other newspapers had excited great outcry because I. P. Co.'s owner is International Paper & Power Co. and because power companies' press activities have lately been viewed with wide alarm (TIME, April 22 et seq.), authorized the sale of I. P. Co.'s 50% stock interest in Boston Publishing Co.-a development long rumored (TIME, June...
Diego Rivera was the most journalisti cally picturesque of the syndicate. He was assailed by the press, lampooned on the stage. Souvenir hunters put snapshots of him in their kodak albums with street beggars. Indians and other scenic curiosities. Undaunted, he works on. Today he is painting what will be the world's largest mural, in the Government Palace in Mex ico City, which will picture the history of Mexico from the Spanish conquest. Painter Rivera is often visited by English speaking tourists and keeps a U. S. assistant to interpret...