Word: res
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peaceful Seine also drew foreigners. The self-mutilated genius Vincent Van Gogh, a Dutchman, painted the Seine's golden Bridge at Asniéres. From the U.S. came Painter Frank Boggs, from England (in 1817) the short-lived Bonington, who painted the exhibition's orange-tinted view of Mantes...
Lucius Beebe cast his eye back over the bloody year of 1942, recalled baked lobster Savannah, soft-shell crabs, roulade of sand crabs, jugged saddle of hare, monies marinières, rack of lamb, shrimp Creole, Strasbourg foie gras, Dom Perignon champagne, pompano belle meunière, venison steak grand veneur, shad roe bonne femme, terrapin stew, escallopini of veal, oysters Rockefeller, pheasant in casserole and eggs gashouse. . . . Concluded the Lucullan Lucius: "Betcha it won't be like this next year...
...blaze of equal force and infinitely greater sanity. The writer: Georges Bernanos, a French Catholic layman known to Americans as the author of a fine novel, Star of Satan (TIME, June 17, 1940), and a furious, eyewitness denunciation of the Fascist "Holy War" in Spain, Les Grands Cimetières Sous La Lune (The Vast Graveyards Under the Moon...
...short, U.S. women, by the million, have renounced skirts in favor of slacks. They are also renouncing less visible femininities: panties, brassières, slips, and even bloomers and petticoats. They have taken to chemises-not the kind that served as slipcovers under corsets-but a combination one-piece garment combining built-in bra, streamlined shorts, slip-like middles...
...lecturer was Robert Coffin, a hulking, fat-jowled Belgian swing critic known to hot jazz devotees as author of the first serious book on the subject: Aux Frontières du Jazz (1930). Critic Goffin both looked and sounded authoritative. "Tiger Rag" said he, "is the second tableau of a quadrille I used to dance to in Brussels as a boy." Phonograph records illustrated his points...