Word: argenteuil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats were eating high on the hog. At Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, 1,300 diners paid $100 a plate for a meal of crab meat in avocado pear figaro, consommé de volaille madrilene, paupiette of Boston sole Marguery, filet mignon sauté with mushroom colbert, salad chiffonade Argenteuil, bombe vanilla sur socle with black cherries jubilee. Cocktails and two kinds of wine were thrown...
Henrich Focke, German planemaker (Focke-Wulf)* and helicopter pioneer, carried on as usual, but at a new stand. He was now working for the French, living in a small Paris hotel, pursuing his specialty in suburban Argenteuil for the thoroughly named Société Nationale des Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest...
...paintings: three Monets-River Scene on the Seine "with Barges, Rustic Landscape, Monceau Park; two Sisleys-Seine at Argenteuil, Thames at Hampton Court; Renoir's Woman at her Toilet; Degas' Seated Nude Brushing her Hair; Cezanne's Mont Victoire; Van Gogh...
Roaring through the suburbs of Argenteuil and Neuilly, they entered the swank west end of Paris and swung into the broad Avenue de Neuilly leading to the Arc de Triomphe and Champs-Elysees. Another column raced in from St. Denis in the northeast. Horse-drawn supply trains clopped across the Place de la Concorde (see cut, p. 21). No single tank or Nazi warrior passed under the famous Arc because that honor was reserved for Adolf Hitler when he should make his triumphal entry...