Word: soci
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stockholders of the Société des Bains de Mer et du Cercle des Etrangers à Monaco (Sea Bathing and Foreigners' Club of Monaco), which runs the Casino, got the news at a meeting in the Casino's ornate Salle Ganne, a floor below the gaming rooms. While gamblers tried their hand upstairs at roulette, baccarat, and trente et quarante, 70-year-old Chairman Alfred Delpierre explained how the odds had worked against the house...
Last week Charbonneau sounded off again. He told La Société des Editeurs Canadiens du Livre Français: "It is by being Canadians and proud of it that our writers will assert themselves. . . . While modern French literature is in full decadence, while its techniques are obsolete . . . why should our younger writers continue to tie themselves exclusively...
...Nice Guy. Giuseppe Dolce, a stonecutter, came from the small town of Dronero, in the Italian Piedmont. When he was 19, he went to France and got a job with a road construction company which was elegantly called La Société du Cylindrage du Littoral. He kept the job for 20 years. He was a stocky, dark man with a round face, high cheekbones and thin lips. He never smiled; neither did he grumble. His bosses liked him because he was.always the first on the job, the last to leave. The other workers in his gang liked...
Franck: Symphonic Variations (Eileen Joyce, pianist, with 1'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Charles Münch conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides). Few could excel Walter Gieseking's fine performance of this popular work; Miss Joyce didn't. Recording: good...
Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe Suites Nos. I & 2 (Orchestra de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Charles Münch conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 6 sides). Suite No. 1 has little to say that the better-known No. 2 does not say better. Recording: good...