Word: adven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought of, sighed elderly Parisians, who remembered well the wartime antics of les soldats americains. Certain hotels and restaurants were made by a well-disposed government to standardize their prices in order to prevent profiteering. Police went around cleaning up the streets, arresting those "who nightly seek adven-ture," raiding "certain low class places." Declared Le Petit Bleu: "It is perhaps conceivable?with-out being excusable?that we might receive badly those Americans who came to France to amuse themselves and who wish in our noble, laborious country only those amusements not French except in name, and which the French...
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