Word: soir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parisians, who have long 'done most of their newspaper reading between the lines, suspected last week that the Rome-Berlin newspapers would be made to behave rather than be suppressed, but that before long the Rightist Premier may suppress outright the Communist dailies L'Humanite and Ce Soir...
...expansive was the mood of the Premier after the warmth of his African receptions that he chose to ignore the latest manifestation of Italian ill will. Special Correspondent Jérôme Tharaud of the Paris-Soir arrived at Genoa by plane en route to Djibouti. Even though he had an Italian visa, the Fascist police interrupted his voyage, escorted him back to the French frontier. Reason: Italy claimed M. Tharaud had written articles uncomplimentary to Italian soldiers in Spain...
These 22 "rugbymen américains," led by a onetime Notre Dame Horseman named Jim Crowley, had been imported by the Paris-Soir to demonstrate their outlandish game-"a game so brutal that it was banned in the U. S. by the first President Roosevelt, and finally universities were allowed to play it, but only between October and January like a sort of hunting season...
...much for the tempers of hardworking Paris artists, tired of tales of their amorality, was publication in Paris-Soir of a lurid Life & Love of Maurice Utrillo. Sad-eyed, lanky Artist Utrillo got a tosspot reputation in his youth, produced, nevertheless, many serious and hauntingly gifted paintings, and for at least ten years has been sober as a church. The Life & Love was accordingly branded "A tissue of lies, calumnies and erroneous or tendentious information" in a manifesto issued by 54 furious artists and critics, including such noted names as Derain, Picasso, Kisling...
...French politics, a kind of national sport distinguished for its rabidity and subtlety, newspaper cartoonists carry weight. Two, at least, possess gifts equal to their importance: H. P. Gassier, contributor to the brilliant Leftist weekly Le Canard Enchaine, and J. Sennep, of such sheets as Paris-Soir (nicknamed, as the organ of the French sugar trust, Paris-Sucre...