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Word: vivants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Avanti, the Socialist newspaper, heard the story, started a front-page ruckus. Into the fray jumped the Actionist, Communist and Republican papers, screaming for the Duke's royal hide. Royalist supporters, lukewarm or less in their affection for the middle-aged bon vivant-whose amorous escapades had the Lido and Newport agog a decade ago-sat tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Duke Departs | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

Julian R. Càceres, Honduras' bon vivant Ambassador to the U.S., the conference's Mr. Five-by-Five, graced the occasion. Dr. Caceres is famed for his ardor (but not always for his luck) at international crap-shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Illusion in Striped Pants | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

Sacha Guitry, unctuous, prolific Parisian Noel Coward, jailed for suspected collaboration, was given his "provisional freedom." Reason: lack of evidence. In jail, 59-year-old, bon vivant Guitry held a daily salon, accepted flowers, pillows, black-market chocolate, U.S. cigarets from admirers. Upon his release, he entered a clinic to calm his nerves, rebuild his appetite. Said a sour acquaintance: "There's nothing wrong with dear Sacha that flattery won't cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 27, 1944 | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

Jules Semon Bache, broker and bon vivant, laid away his millions so thriftily that when he died last fortnight (TIME, April 3), U.S. art lovers found themselves beneficiaries of a superb art collection. Last week the 63 Bache (rhymes with aitch) paintings were still hanging in the Bache Manhattan mansion, which the collector had donated (1937) to house them, where they were on view upon application. When the war ends, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum will house the approximately $12 million worth of Bache paintings where everybody can see them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Bache Collection | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

Died. Jules Semon Bache, 82, art-collecting, art-bestowing Manhattan banker and broker; after a brief illness; in Palm Beach, Fla. The monocled, well-preserved bon vivant took over his uncle's Wall Street firm in 1892, swelled it to 42 offices, 800 employes. He became one of the greatest patrons of pre-19th-Century art, in 1937 turned over to New York his Fifth Avenue mansion, with its choice, more-than-$12,000,000 assortment of canvases, from 18th-Century Giovanni Bellini to 18th-Century Sir Joshua Reynolds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 3, 1944 | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

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