Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down the corridor the Stavisky committee was also hearing things from an honest inspector of the Sûreté Générale to make its ears burn. Snapped Inspector Simon...
...even wilder scheme: to arm the convicts in the Guiana penal settlements and set up an independent state which they imagined the U. S. would support. At this point, still according to Deputy Henriot, Jean Galmot and "Handsome Alex" Stavisky fell madly in love with the beautiful Arlette Simon who married Stavisky. Conspirator Galmot tattled on Conspirator Stavisky. In 1928 Jean Galmot was mysteriously poisoned. A partly burned letter from Stavisky contained the sentence: "Galmot will find out what it costs to cross my path." On his deathbed Jean Galmot gasped: "The dirty dogs, they've killed...
...DEALERS-Unofficial Observer-Simon & Schuster ($2.75). A capital ship for an ocean trip Was the Walloping Windowblind! No gale that blew dismayed her crew Or troubled the captain's mind; The man at the wheel was taught to feel Contempt for the wildest blow, Tho' it often appeared when the weather had cleared, That he'd been in his bunk below. -Charles Edward Carryl...
...most important Liberal Cabinet Minister formally renounce his faith. It was a moment to make the late great William Ewart Gladstone turn in his grave, but, full of turtle soup and tawny port, the National Liberals took it calmly. All his life a Free Trader, Sir John Simon. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, was explaining his conversion to a high tariff policy...
...NIJINSKY, by Romola Nijinsky-Simon & Schuster ($3). *An entrechat consists of flicking the heels together in the air. With the exception of Nijinsky, his wife says, no modern dancer has been able to do more than eight. *Diaghilev can never prove his innocence. He died five years...