Word: quel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion would be historic. Poet D'Annunzio, who retired last summer to a hermit's existence in his exotic home at Gardonne would emerge, journey to Assisi, and plant a tree in honor of St. Francis. Quel tableau...
...tragic. For is it not tragedy which stalks in the contoritionist's soul as he leaps, jumps, hurls himself before Bebe's car--to die? Of course not. Contoritionists never die when automobiles hit them. They just confort. So she saved the fifty thousand dollars and the Boston lawyer quel homme! So droll, and with what a black...
...President Doumergue of France had come down to Lyons to open the fair (TIME, March 15), and would of course be the chief guest at the banquet. Aghast, M. Herriot remembered that diplomatic usage would demand the placing of Ambassador Rakovsky next to President Doumergue. What to do? Helas! Quel faux...
...your issue of Feb. 8 (FRANCE), your little article under the caption of "Quel Beau Nu" doesn't exaggerate one bit. I spent the summer in Paris and was at the Concert Mayol several times. Why I went is beyond me, as it is without question the greatest "gyp" joint ever foisted on an American public. You can't turn around without bumping into an extended palm, and my first experience cost a 20-franc note for a one-franc service. They don't know the meaning of the word "change." The insipid Harry Pilcer was the leading (?) attraction...
Last week the officers of this institution learned with alarm that the U. S. debt claims upon France were being held up to ridicule by a loud-voiced Parisian revue performer, Mlle. Marcelle Parisys, in Quel Beau Nu at the Concert Mayol, Paris, (TIME, Feb. 8). Swiftly the following cablegram was despatched to the Washington-Lafayette Institute's Paris agent: "Parisys' number Mayol against America bad effect on press here. Will do much harm if continued. See revue; also Oscar Dufrenne, producer; explain what Washington-Lafayette is doing. Cable results...