Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fernand Bouisson. A huge man, almost as tall as Flandin, with a sleek paunch and a neatly-cropped white beard, he was born in Constantine, Algeria, later moved to Marseille. Once a rugby player, he has represented Marseille in the Chamber since 1909, avoiding scandal and public attention, a stolid routine politician. Since 1927 he has held the safe but physically exhausting job of President of the Chamber, a job for which he is ideally suited because of his size, his strength, his enormous Marseille voice, generally admitted to be the loudest in Paris. President Bouisson broke the handle...
Russia in 1905 had apparently disintegrated. Her enormous and far-famed army had been repeatedly crushed by the highly organized yellow ants of Japan; her navy had been sunk by these same ants, unexpectedly become amphibious. In Moscow and St. Petersburg masses of stolid workingmen had become sufficiently aroused to barricade the streets and force the government to abandon, in an orgy of ambiguity, its autocratic insolence, if not the autocracy itself...
Scratch a stolid Swiss and you have scratched the most orderly of men. In Berne last week the Swiss Government decided they could no longer wink at the disorderly Nazi practice of sending German spies abroad to kidnap or murder Germans who have "opposed Hitler" (TIME, Feb. 4). The case of Berthold Jacob seemed to Swiss one kidnapping too many, and last week spunky little Switzerland made it a cause celebre. Thundered Swiss Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta: "The Jacob affair constitutes a serious violation of Swiss sovereignty capable of shaking the destiny of Switzerland...
Manhattan and divorce, bought a ranch house outside of Taos, N. Mex. There she has been, off & on, ever since, and there, while her stolid Indian husband, Antonio Lujan, farms the fields or goes about his slow tribal business, she has written an occasional book-her reminiscences of her late fly-in-the-parlor neighbor, D. H. Lawrence (Lorenzo in Taos), the first volume of a much-advertised autobiography (Intimate Memories). As an interlude in her autobiographical life-work comes this description of how she passes her winter days. Those who enjoy, one way or another. Author Luhan...
...more than 600 specimens which Collector James Johnson Sweeney assembled last week, critics picked three as particularly noteworthy 1) Bieri, a stolid engaging head of a young girl from French Gabun, with long formalized curls; 2) a witch doctor's Konde figure, dumpy, menacing and studded with nails representing curses against an enemy; 3) a squatting Venus, also from French Gabun. From Dahomey came one of the largest exhibits, the iron war god in the lobby, nearly life-size and wearing a strange spiked hat and a garment like a pleated nightshirt. His raised left arm looked...