Word: salons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leclerc, 62, Paris' only bearded traffic cop, to whose post at the busy Porte Saint-Denis devout tourists for years repaired in order to touch his long whiskers for luck; in Paris. A noted painter of old Paris, he once held a one-man show at the Police Salon...
...Parcell-Dido and Aeneas Handel-Concerto Gross No.12 in B Minor 8:45 News From the Colleges: M.I.T. Night 9:00 "Nine O'clock Jump" 9:30 Swimming Team Bull-Session with Ca pt. Fannies Powers 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall" Casella-Suite From La Glara Cropland-El Salon Mexico B loch-quintet for plane and string quartet 10:45 Crimson News and Interview...
...never was and never will be what your reporter calls a salon Bolshevik. I was with the soldiers of the first World War, with the workers of Berlin, with the peasants of Bavaria, with the miners of the Saar, and had no time to join those circles of rich people who find themselves interesting by talking revolution in their parlors...
...Ridinghood but with the wolf. "I felt that his case was not properly presented; he acted strictly within the law, and on each occasion he got a very raw deal." When he was 31, his painting of a wolf crunching a human skull was tossed out of the Grand Salon in Paris with cries of "Horrible! In sympathy with the beast ! " Following year, in New Mexico, he resolved to stop poisoning cattle-slaying wolves. "What right. I asked, has man to inflict such horrible agony on fellow beings...
...Inauguration Day a thick drizzle fell on Havana's gold-domed Presidential Palace, but in its Salon of Mirrors Cuba's pomp watched the island's de facto boss become its de jure leader. Outside, wet thousands gathered in Misiones Park, with bands blaring, cheered a balcony appearance by the newly sworn President. Same day, President Batista issued a manifesto to the press:"It is true that the revolutionary cycle has ended. I wish to be good and to be loved by my people. I have no triumph. It is an ideal that has triumphed-the ideal...