Word: ri
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could remember Chéri as a baby ... by turns adored or forgotten, matured among blotchy maids and tall sardonic valets. . . ." At 14 Chéri fled from boarding school restraint, at 18 he was a miniature old man with black circles under his eyes, "a fussy little property owner with his nose in everything"?needlessly, for his mother was a well-paid harlot...
...mother's friend, was a cool blonde 24 years older than Chéri. When Léa invited the youth to come with her to the country he brought along his Renouhard runabout, saying, "I'll pay for the gasoline but youll pay for the chauffeur's meals." Through their subsequent seven-year amour, Léa remained in Chéri's eyes no more than a means to his own pleasure, unmixed with tenderness. Result: noticing Léa's age in her face after a short separation, he left her as he would a cage, returning to his young wife...
...worst more artificial than sophisticated, at its best moving to a degree, especially if the reader can read vicariously, Chéri is a novel of pre-War Paris with naturalistic approach. Its value is enhanced by ten illustrations by Herman Post, lately of Simplizissimus (Munich political-satirical weekly). In France the novel, not new, is in its 95th edition, a total respectable even in France where "editions" are smaller than...
...prevention of hardening of alumni arteries but that they should be kept among friends and neighbors. The threat of professionalism in college football, according to Mr. Edmonds, lies in the intersectional games. "As long as relations lie among a small group of neighboring colleges, a college spirit of friendly ri- valry can be maintained. Once the game becomes an intersectional affair, it has emerged from collegiate bounds and has assumed what amounts to national rivalry. The attitudes of two practically unconnected colleges toward each other in a football game are dubious at best...
...attractive. Is ZAT So?-A prizefight parable takes place in a Fifth Avenue home. Terribly tough and terribly funny. THE GUARDSMAN-Suave and sentient comedy of home life among the actors played perfectly by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. THE FIREBRAND-Benvenuto Cellini indulges in some medieval bedroom ri- baldries. THE SHOW-OFF-Large talk and loud laughter over the young man who talks much, says little...