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...knows so much about food that even the French consider her a gourmet. Animal-lover, she keeps wild dogs, wild cats in her Paris apartment. She reads very little. Short, thickset, she has wood-colored hair, long grey slanting eyes, speaks in a deep alto. Other books: Chéri, La Vagabonde. La Naissance du Jour, L'Entrave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Parisian Idyll | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

...could remember Ch�ri as a baby ... by turns adored or forgotten, matured among blotchy maids and tall sardonic valets. . . ." At 14 Ch�ri fled from boarding school restraint, at 18 he was a miniature old man with black circles under his eyes, "a fussy little property owner with his nose in everything"?needlessly, for his mother was a well-paid harlot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Paris Reads | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...mother's friend, was a cool blonde 24 years older than Ch�ri. When L�a invited the youth to come with her to the country he brought along his Renouhard runabout, saying, "I'll pay for the gasoline but youll pay for the chauffeur's meals." Through their subsequent seven-year amour, L�a remained in Ch�ri's eyes no more than a means to his own pleasure, unmixed with tenderness. Result: noticing L�a's age in her face after a short separation, he left her as he would a cage, returning to his young wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Paris Reads | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...worst more artificial than sophisticated, at its best moving to a degree, especially if the reader can read vicariously, Ch�ri is a novel of pre-War Paris with naturalistic approach. Its value is enhanced by ten illustrations by Herman Post, lately of Simplizissimus (Munich political-satirical weekly). In France the novel, not new, is in its 95th edition, a total respectable even in France where "editions" are smaller than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Paris Reads | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...prevention of hardening of alumni arteries but that they should be kept among friends and neighbors. The threat of professionalism in college football, according to Mr. Edmonds, lies in the intersectional games. "As long as relations lie among a small group of neighboring colleges, a college spirit of friendly ri- valry can be maintained. Once the game becomes an intersectional affair, it has emerged from collegiate bounds and has assumed what amounts to national rivalry. The attitudes of two practically unconnected colleges toward each other in a football game are dubious at best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIEWERS LOOK WITH HIGH APPROVAL ON NEW NUMBERS OF LAMPOON AND ADVOCATE | 10/23/1925 | See Source »

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