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...through life with the impetus of a cannon ball, Balzac dashed into love affairs at every turn. His first two mistresses were twice his age. People of all sorts, from grocery clerks to emperors, fired his imagination to write about them. In the meantime, he loved carriages, good wine, sleek clothes, expensive food. He ran up debts of 150,000 francs and trying to extricate himself by scatter-brained schemes, increased them. His economic principle was that spending more money means the necessity for earning more money, and as his only sure way of earning more money was to write...
...Byrd crew supplied Parisians with types for all tastes. Some chose sleek, swart Bert Acosta who had piloted the big ship to the French coast and then collapsed with exhaustion. While Commander Byrd slept on the first night in Paris, Pilot Acosta, despite a broken collar bone, continued to pilot his comrades through an informal demonstration at Joseph Zelli's justly celebrated Montmartre night club. Lieutenant Noville, rough, ready and with gay French blood in him was perfectly at home. Blond, blocky Bernt Balchen did not come into his own until his fellow Scandinavians held a special Viking evening...
...Majesty had strolled out to the paddock, and was regarding pensively a sleek little filly whose tail had been cropped short. A shadow of disapproval crossed the King's face as he inspected the very close-cropped tail...
...Sleek, black President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of the West African Negro Republic of Liberia came to Paris last week, vacationing after the exhausting campaign which resulted in his election to the Presidency for a third term (TIME, May 23). Parisian reporters called President King "representative of that type of African who is outwardly Europeanized, but is still at heart a fine, genuine black." Beaming, President King told these newsgatherers how heartily he welcomes the great U. S. Firestone rubber plantation development in Liberia (TIME...
...Times; the New York World reported 2% bushels of verse. But at Le Bourget, shortly after Captain Lindbergh landed a fortnight ago, there was a poet who squatted on the flying field to gain first-hand inspiration-like Francis Scott Key writing the Star Spangled Banner. The squatter was sleek Maurice Rostand, son of the late Edmond Rostand.* The results were disappointing, particularly when translated into English. An excerpt...