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Word: argent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auntie Mdme, mameishly chartered her own Viscount, took off from London with a slew (38) of friends, including high-spirited Actors Trevor Howard and Charles Laughton. Highlights of the tour: a determined check on rive droite fleshpots, a calorie-laden spread at the Tour d'Argent, a gleeful reunion with another Mame, Greer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Once there was a poor little rich man. His name was Armand de Montfort-Lamoury, and he was a duke. Armand had everything: a Paris town house and a Daimler town car, pressed duck at the Tour d'Argent and Bellinger '47 to wash it down. Still, he lacked The Perfect Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bubbles & Bemelmanship | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Waste of Time & Money. These homely activities made sense to the France that bred Antoine Pinay-not the American tourist's France of roasted chestnuts and rhinestoned poodles on the Champs-Ely-sées, "Allo darleeng" in the Place Pigalle, pressed duck at the Tour d'Argent, bikinis at Biarritz and baccarat at Nice-but the provincial France of hard-scraped farms, gnarled vineyards, smudgy little factories; of closefisted small shopkeepers, scuff-knuckled farmers and black-stockinged bakers' daughters. It is a France tradition-bound, slow to change, as stolid, solid and unspectacular as the pallid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Man with a Voter's Face | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Maybe Michelin should go back to dunkin' doughnuts with Duncan Hines [TIME, April 28] . . . To give a second-rate restaurant like Laperouse three stars, and to demote the Tour d'Argent to two stars, is rank heresy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 19, 1952 | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...wish is that I had two stomachs to give to the Tour d'Argent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 19, 1952 | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

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