Word: arles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cape Town's summer profusion took their breath away, for Tristan, 1,700 miles over their shoulders in the lonely South Atlantic, is scrubby volcanic crust. In the slow, burred speech of his seafaring west-of-England ancestors, one dazzled visitor exclaimed: "We want time foor arl thus luvverly flowery growth to be thought upon...
...record was played back to them. Tall, dark-haired Arthur Reppeto had best told the thoughts of all six: "I never think things in Cape Town is as they is.... The streets, there's cement in 'em. Place is luvverly. And now closing with luv to arl on the Hisland...
...opera behind latticed screens. Barbers and hairdressers discussed high Cs with their customers. During one performance of Faust, an expectant mother is said to have turned to her husband, remarking: "Pierre, I do not think I can wait for the ballet." Many a French opera, including Samson, L'Arlésienne and Hérodiade, had a New Orleans première before reaching Manhattan. Then, in 1919, the New Orleans French Opera House burned to the ground...