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...Beaux Arts students; 2) painters whose works were refused by the Salon; 3) fascist youths. Almost certainly the first is correct, for the following reasons: 1) under the menu posted outside the Restaurant des Beaux Arts there appeared a small blue poster reading: Tous les anti-Picassistes: Rendezvous à 4 heures aujourd'hui; 2) all the demonstrators were very young; 3) the careful handling of pictures was much more like art students than like fascist hooligans; 4) a delegation of unidentified students called at the offices of the newspaper L'Aurore. They stated they were not collaborators...
Thirteen years ago, when tubby, profligate Sultan Ahmad, Shah of Persia, was debauching along the French Riviera French newsorgans came out with the old French proverb: La mdt tous les chats sont gris. This means literally: "At night all cats are grey." A punning interpretation is: "At night all Shahs are drunk. In 1925 Sultan Ahmad Shah was toppled off the throne, and swashbuckling, self-made Reza Shah Pahlavi declared himself the King of Kings. From the outset he pompously made it clear that his country would stomach no further insults of the drunken Shah variety. Last year the King...
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...from a mistaken command. The official responsible for the fatal order (perhaps Napoleon himself-I forget the exact details) is said to have been suffering from a severe cold, and to have exclaimed "Ma sacré toux!"-"My wretched cough"-which was misinterpreted by a zealous officer as "Massacrez tous," or "Kill everybody...
...Fuyon tous d'amour le jeu (Early French Folk Song) Orlando LassusIrish Tune from County Derry (British Folk Tune) Percy GraingerNow is the Month of Maying (Old English Dance) Thomas MorleyWassail Song (Early English Carol) Arranged by R. Vaughan William