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...Zelazowa-Wola, near Warsaw, son of a French father and a Polish mother. At 15 he published his first composition. At 21 he was already great among such great musicians as Mendelssohn, Liszt; soon outranked them. At 27 he began his curious and celebrated intimacy with Amandine Dudevant ("George Sand"). When he died, at 39, after having composed some 200 major works, his stupendous funeral at Paris was but a feeble tribute to his genius...
...piercing cries of the population groping in the dark added the element of agony to the scene. Great fissures appeared in the fields, discharging water, sand and silt...
Tremont -- "Beau Geste" -- 8.15 o'clock. Blood, and sand...
Curling Atlantic waves swept in one morning last week over the long sand dunes on the sea coast just above Bordeaux. Occasionally a wave burst over the sea wall, spattered with tingling droplets an old man who sat hunched upon a bench, staring seaward. Grey skies shrouded the 85th birthday of Georges Eugene Adrien Clemenceau...
...Auburn and Dunster Streets. The gentlemen of 1930 were shocked yesterday to find their sole, sound, secure amusement gone--one shadow of this shadow world gone hence. The Yard Cop who joined blue coated friends of the local gendarme gendre in watching wistfully the "little grains of sand" rise to their climax, descend is now a pessimist. The shovel has gone...