Word: gervaise
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We Happy Few. When the long night was over, all but a few red-eyed newsmen were red-faced too. The New York Star's Jennings Perry could point with pride to an almost-right October column titled "It's Closer Than You Think." In the small Garden...
Her fictional plantation is Belle Heloise and its owners the d'Alverys. There is Madame Mere, who uses her imaginary invalidism to rule the plantation from her bedside. There is Gervais d'Alvery, the heir presumptive. He marries a Baton Rouge stenographer who proves to be a strong...
The face of Paris, so ageless and radiant in the years of freedom, is that of a gnarled and brooding old lady under the Nazis. The city was in no mood for a facelifting last week, but it had started to get one. The Germans were tearing down buildings in...
Accompanied by Mme Zay, 14 porters, 15 guides, 20 photographers, Mountain-climber Zay set out from St. Gervais, at the foot of Mt. Blanc, in midmorning. He arrived at the Tete Rousse shelter, 10,390 feet high, at 3 p. m. After a night's sleep he rose at...
The effect of the Premier's policy was to raise a storm of criticism about his ears. Practically the whole of the Opposition and its press attacked the Premier. At Pre Saint Gervais, where Socialists Millerand and Briand had, 30 years before, harrangued the people, the ''storm...