Word: rothschild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord & Fleas. The late Nathaniel Charles Rothschild collected and classified fleas. His brother Lionel Walter Rothschild Lord Rothschild collects and classifies birds and butterflies, is a much respected zoological systematise Lord Rothschild last week maintained the concept of "flexible species", that "individuals are never alike whatever their relationship to each other." For example he cited the commonest British mouse-flea (Ctenophthalmus agyrtes). "A calculation . . . to find among them two absolutely alike in the number and position of the bristles on the body arrives at the amusing figure of many million billions, a figure certainly in excess of that...
...heavy pelisse. An impressed English visitor to Paris said that Proust was "really the only man I ever saw dining in a fur coat." Some of the lions Proust tamed: Prince de Polignac, Count Robert de Montesquiou (chief prototype of Proust's "Baron de Charlus"), Baronne Alphonse de Rothschild, Edmond de Goncourt, Massenet, Saint-Saens, Anatole France, Prince Antoine Bibesco and his cousin Marthe. No coward, Proust fought a duel with a journalist who had reviewed him unfavorably. He was a Dreyfusard when merely to be a Jew in France was dangerous...
...sale of books by French War Veterans. In the limousine beside ancient M. Doumer rode alert, bristle-bearded Novelist Claude Farrère, President de la Société des Ecrivains Combattants who were staging their "War Veterans' Book Afternoon" in the nearby building of the Rothschild Foundation. Book sales were proceeding briskly and Novelist Farrère's wife Henriette had just succeeded in selling a third book by her husband to the brawny Russian in dark glasses who loitered beside the Farrère book booth, asking repeatedly: "Of course your husband will autograph these...
...dividends at all but to put the whole of their profits for the fiscal year 1931-32 into reserves was the unanimous decision last week of Poland's seven largest banks, including the Warsaw Discount Bank (Rothschild) and Warsaw Bank of Commerce (Harriman...
...match N. E. Long '32 succumbed to Forbes of Princeton who adopted a Sicilian defence and defeated Long in 32 moves, and A. G. Malkan '33 went down to defeat before the superior play of McCormick. The Harvard victories were registered by V. L. Eaton '34, who won from Rothschild of Princeton and by M. A. Mergentheim...