Word: quand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grew up in Newburyport, Mass., went to Harvard, worked on the Boston Transcript, served in France during World War I. After a year on the New York Tribune, he tried advertising, became one of the Satevepost's most skillful authors. In his Satevepost days Mar quand created the character of Mr. Moto, a sapient Japanese detective. After Pearl Harbor Marquand interned Mr. Moto. Said Marquand: "I rather liked him . . . but now it seems I had him all wrong. A veritable wolf in sheep's clothing...
Prenez le bonheur quand il passe-Alphand's delivery of such sentiments makes her worth $750 a week to the Blue Angel's Jacoby...
...long leaned over the tomb of Poet Alfred de Musset in Paris' Père-Lachaise cemetery crashed in a windstorm, fell against the tomb, broke the bust of the poet who had loved willows, and shattered the marble tablet bearing his verses that begin: "Mes chers amis, quand je mourrai, Plantez un laule au cimeti...
France Forever. Gaston Henry-Haye's opposite in almost every respect, physical, social and intellectual, is the founder of France Forever (France Quand-Même), Engineer Eugene Jules Houdry of Philadelphia. Engineer Houdry is rich from his oil-cracking patents, hard-boiled by nature. "The French people are not going to kiss the bottom of Mr. Hitler," says...
...Disraeli, is a super-politician in a country of politicians, lately showed in the Colonial (and Post Office) Ministry that he had lost none of the drive and administrative flair that made him indispensable to Clemenceau. He was so close to the Premier that the Rabelaisian Tiger once quipped: "Quand je pete, Mandel...