Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...18th Century French pictures on fans and window shades for a Paris factory. Before he was 25 he knew most of the men who were to be his lifelong friends and associates in Impressionism: Monet, Cézanne, Sisley, Pissarro, Diaz. He enlisted in the cavalry for the Franco-Prussian war, but nothing happened to him. Very little happened to him all his life. He was a painter's painter, passionately interested in the technique of his craft, with a lusty sensuousness that has caused Collector Barnes to compare him, at great length, to Rubens, Titian, and the 16th...
...Nazi. President of the Reichstag, Realm Minister of Aviation, Chief of the German Secret Service, Premier of Prussia, Commander of Police, Head Forester and Chief Game Warden and Master of the Hunt in Prussia, Director General of the State Theatres; to blonde, buxom Emmi Sonnemann, 35, whom he appointed "Prussian State Actress" during his courtship. Said he: "My best man will be Adolf Hitler." The shrine erected by General Göring to his late first wife, a Swedish Baroness, is a point of pilgrimage for the Nazi League of German Girls. During the War Goring was an authentic national...
Author von Stroheim, onetime cinemactor ("The Man You Love To Hate") and Hollywood director (Foolish Wives, 1922; Greed, 1925; The Merry Widow, 1025), is described by his publisher as a "thickset, fanatical Prussian . . . possessed of a pair of spaniel brown eyes and a personality so winning that he seems able to move either mountains or human hearts with equal ease." He has again & again felt his passion for uncompromising cinema realism thwarted by cautious superiors. As a safety valve with which to blow off the pent-up, perilous stuff, he wrote Paprika. In it he "has given his passion...
Died. Auguste Escoffier, 88, famed chef; in Monte Carlo. Beginning as a member of Napoleon Ill's kitchen staff during the Franco-Prussian War, Escoffier became a cook in the grand manner, fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...
...peasant-narrator is a philosopher with ideas about everything. He tells what he thinks of the an den regime, of Napoleon, of the bourgeois king. Louis Philippe, of Napoleon III, of the Franco-Prussian war, of the French foreign policy that led to that war, of M. Thiers and the Third Republic, of the Paris Commune, of the changing status of women through all this time. He also expatiates upon the qualities of French soil, wine and scenery in the different provinces surrounding Pargny, which is on the River Aisne. All this gives The Iron Mother, which might have been...