Word: thibault
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Still more recently doctors have come to recognize the therapeutic values of colored wall coverings. That made the wall paper manufacturers glad; they performed researches. Last week they cheered, when Richard E. Thibault of Manhattan addressed their annual National Convention of Wall Paper Wholesalers & Retailers in Manhattan after this fashion...
...France" was his pen-name. His true name was Jacques Anatole Thibault...
Kissing Ghost. There was Madeleine, for instance, an amorous apparition, whose medium was a rough country cartman with a thick blond mustache. Delegate Thibault, who related Madeleine's doings, said he thought she was a materialization of a 19-year-old girl who died in 1908. She was summoned, he explained, by an arrangement of red lights and phosphorescent screens, which went sailing around the room when she had begun to osculate. She was quit partial to a member of the Portuguese delegation (on the cheek), but often stayed with Delegate Thibault, for hours at a time...
Jacques Anatole Thibault was born on the Quai Malaquais, brought up on the Quai Voltaire. "No one," he wrote, "can be commonplace who has lived on the quais." His father was a royalist, a bookseller, a devout Catholic. The father's comrades in the guard of Charles X used to call him "le père France." The name stuck to him and was inherited by the son who has made it famous...