Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when all France fétes the memory of Ste. Jeanne d'Arc, an old woman of Saint Brieuc in Brittany cried : "I want to die like Jeanne d'Arc. France is ruined. I will save her!" She went to the carpenter, begged him to build her a pyre, but he refused. She went home, constructed her a pyre, drenched herself in paraffin, lay down, lit a match, was burned to death...
There is much to wonder at in the newly-proclaimed secession of the Isis Saint Louis from the domination of Paris and "bourgeois Commercialism." In America, the habit is clearly to include as many towns, islands, suburbs and cities as possible under a single municipal government. In France, as one may see, these things are done differently--for there are now two independent republes within the Parisian walls--Montmartre, and the Isle Saint Louis...
...political position as a residence of artists, poets and medical students, or to its ethnology and history as the original home of the Lutetians who resisted Caesar--a people to whom Parisians are allen in spirit and in fact, being but recent immigrants from the provinces," the Isle Saint Louis felt its humiliation deeply; and in this bold proclamation of freedom, the descendants of the Lutetians have vindicated their spirited ancestors...
...cent of foreigners, mostly Americans, who spoil all the walters with their ill-proportioned tips, and all the landladies with regular payments. Almost as bad, "American is the language most commonly and most vociferously spoken" in the cafes and restaurants. In view of these outrages, the Isle Saint Louis proposes to appeal to the League of Nations. Americans who may visit Paris in the near future will doubtless take notice...
...SAINT JOAN?Bernard Shaw joins the Theatre Guild in paying his humblest-well, almost his humblest?respects to the Maid of Orleans...