Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the many famed lovers of Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin Dudevant (George Sand) was the volcanic lawyer, Michel de Bourges, who upon completing a fervent lecture on republicanism, would lock her in her bedroom to meditate his philosophy. But that there were no lovers at all has occurred only to George Sand's loyal granddaughter, Aurore Sand (Mme Lauth). Indignant that there should be so much talk concerning the chastity of her illustrious grandmother, Aurore Sand sued Jacques Boulenger in her defense when he published The Early Loves of George Sand in 1928, but lost when the court ruled...
After separating from her husband, Casimir Dudevant, the natural son of a Napoleonic baron, because of his excessive addiction to young ladies, George Sand turned to Jules Sandeau, with whom she collaborated on her first novel and from whom she took her pseudonym. The affair was short-lived. Returning from a visit to the country, she was surprised to discover that her fickle Jules had set up their laundress as his mistress in her apartment...
...people have been the guests of Dr. Rice on inspection tours. Under his leaderships or that of Weld Arnold '18, instructor in Geography, such tours are apt to start in the basement where a solid cement vault stands at one end of the building. Within it, on a solid, sand-cushioned pillar, there is a rare type of clock, one of seven in this country. It is a product of English manufacture and its exceptionally delicate mechanism establishes for the institute the primal fact of geography, the exact time. It is wired to another mechanism in the clock room, where...
Famed & fashionable in Franklin County, N. Y. was the old Ampersand Hotel, built in 1888, razed by fire in 1907. Today on Lower Saranac Lake stands a new Hotel Ampersand. The name is taken from an Ampersand Mountain, an Ampersand Lake, an Ampersand Brook, probably a corruption of "amber sand" on the lake shore rather than a learned comparison between the brook's crookedness...
Generoso Pope, the Manhattan sand & gravel tycoon who has bought up all but one of New York City's Italian-language daily newspapers (TIME, Sept. 14), potent in city politics and proud in the possession of three decorations from Benito Mussolini...