Word: soused
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Ballantine will play a group of short selections composed of: Brahm's Rhapsody in E flat, and two compositions by Debussy entitled: Et la Lune Descend sur le Temple qui fut, and Jardin sous la Pluie...
...Clair (Sous les Toits de Paris, Le Million, A Nous la Libertè) and the French film industry have been almost synonymous in most people's minds since 1930, when his first important film was an international sensation. In addition to being the only important director in France, he also wrote his own stories, chose his cast and took complete control of his productions. Long determined not to go to Hollywood, where, far from being No. 1 man in the industry, he doubted whether he would even be allowed to run his own Unit, Director Clair last autumn broke...
...type," according to Joseph Shearing, "of the low agitator of the Paris gutters." Terribly ugly, 5 ft. tall but with an enormous head, he suffered with eczema so badly that it was commonly believed he had leprosy. Charlotte de Corday arrived in Paris, bought a kitchen knife for 40 sous, took a fiacre to Marat's residence where she was refused admittance. She then wrote two letters, flattering him, pretending that she had important information, dressed herself seductively in a gown of loose white Indian muslin, put green instead of black ribbons on her hat, had her golden curls fashionably...
...born in Ajaccio, Corsica. He built a small perfumer's shop, in which a brother-in-law gave him a job, into an internationally known organization. He published ten French newspapers, including Le Figaro, of which the most successful was L'Ami du Peuple which sold for two sous when other Paris newspapers cost five. In 1929 he lost half his fortune, then estimated at $34,000,000, to his divorcing and suing wife, the onetime Yvonne Alexandrine Le Baron, now publisher of Le Figaro. Stockholders gained control of his other newspapers. He owned a cordon of French chateaux including...
...French copper sous grew the eyes of Professor Corbiere, distinguished naturalist, when he sighted the monster. Never in his life had he seen such a thing as this. The world was waiting for him to speak and for France he must not fail. "It is," he proclaimed, "a cetacean...