Word: prix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...causing "grave prejudice" to the Goncourt Academy. Each year the academy hands some novelist a Goncourt Prize, but Guitry and the academy have been on the outs. So this year Guitry awarded his own "Goncourt Prize" to a novel of his own choice. The book was labeled Prix Goncourt in big letters, and Le Goncourt Hors de Goncourt in little ones...
Sprig of a wealthy Lorraine family, Robert Schuman has been a parliament member since 1919, got his first ministry in 1940. A hard-working widower of frugal tastes, he lives in one room, takes all his meals at the Assembly restaurant, where the prix fixe is 120 francs ($1). The Nazis arrested him in 1940, but he escaped after seven months in a German fortress...
...Yale's Everett Victor Meeks, 68, bulging, Mephistophelean architect, dean of the School of Fine Arts during the 25 years of its greatest glory (so many of its students won the Prix de Rome that they dubbed it Prix de Yale...
...start of France's annual Prix Alfred Leblanc balloon race, and nine dauntless aeronauts from France, The Netherlands and Switzerland were on hand to compete for the grand prize of 6,000 francs (about the price of a good pair of shoes). The French aeronaut, Pierre Jacquet, turned up in a natty sports suit and floppy hat with two duck feathers stuck in it. Erich Tilgenkamp, the Swiss entry, looked trim and sharp in his checkered cap, despite an anguished evening spent searching for his balloon, which had somehow got lost in the freight shed of Paris' Gare...
Chained Art. Nadia Boulanger was born in a house full of music. Her grandfather was a composer and so was her father, who in 1835 won the Prix de Rome. Her grandmother was a famous singer at the Opera-Comique and her mother a Russian princess. Nadia herself won prizes in every subject she studied at the Paris Conservatory, topped it off with the second Grand Prix de Rome...