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...only for the sake of sustenance. Then his wealthy family hired an illiterate peasant girl named Marie Chevalier as their cook. A native genius, Marie could whip up sauces creamy as clouds and subtle as sunsets; she could pluck a plum tart from the oven at the split second of proper crispness or mash a marron to the delicacy of morning dew. "She civilized me," sighs Curnonsky, repeating an old quip: "She turned my needs into pleasures...
...started when India and Pakistan, hostile ever since their split five years ago, decided that passports would be necessary for travel between the two countries. The rumor spread that the frontier would be permanently closed, leaving minorities on each side at the mercy of old enemies...
Union members are split roughly into two groups: those who supported the petition and those who accuse the petitioners of trying to sabotage the H.U.E.R.A. for the American Federation of Labor...
...varsity once more went through a split drill, with the offense and defense running against freshmen and jayvees respectively. Captain John Nichols worked out at offensive inside tackle, with sophomore Tim Anderson--an erstwhile guard--replacing him on the defensive line...
...states, Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History, added Illinois as another doubtful state whose vote could be decided by racial or religious minorities. Handlin feels that the Negroes, Eastern Europeans, and Irish Catholics were ready earlier in the campaign to be split successfully as groups from the New Deal Democratic alliance, but that the Republican campaign so far has not been strategically aimed to win these minorities...