Word: au
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jimmy went home to New Jersey, raised some cash, bought revolving tubs and pressing machines, and took a two-day course in how to run them. Soon he offered Port-au-Prince its first nettoyage à sec. After the predictable number of mangled sleeves and missing buttons, Jimmy's crew of five began to get the hang of dry-cleaning. The tele jiol (Creole for word-of-mouth telegraph) advertised his service, and bundles of clothes poured in on muleback and in baskets on peasant women's heads. Jimmy expanded his plant, opened a laundry (the Blanchisserie Jimmy...
Honegger: Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher (Vera Zorina as Jeanne: Philadelphia Orchestra, soloists and choirs conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Columbia. 2 LPs). The burning of St. Joan, told in a magnificent mishmash of symbolism, poetry and high drama. Honegger's score contains movements of surpassing beauty, others of sheerest musical exhibitionism. A brilliant performance...
...restaurant, with its almost militant, straight backed chairs, have attracted many notables. Genevieve remembers William Faulkner, who used to eat lunch in the same corner every day, as "a small man, sharp blue eyes and a moustache. He seemed to be watching for something and always ordered Coq au Vin."Thornton Wilder and Miro frequented the restaurant, but neither made the impression on Genevieve that Louis Jouvet did, in a single visit. He came to Henri IV early one evening, out of temper and unwilling to talk. With some escargots and two bottles of Chateauncuf du pape all this changed...
...French history and France itself, to which she returns each summer, are her first loves. She named the Club, Henri IV, in honor of that great French king's benevolent gluttony. Every French family, he vowed, would have a Poule au Maison, at least on Sundays--and this is the Club's specialty. to keep Henri company, Genevieve is opening a pastry shop called Gabrielle across Boylston Street. "Gabrielle," explains Genevieve, "was Henri's mistress. It's only right that they should be together, don't you think...
This year the rumor went around that the authorities and more sophisticated islanders were embarrassed by the primitive revelry of the Ra Ra bands, and would attempt to ban them from the capital. But in Port-au-Prince, police said they had no orders to stop the merry processions, and even priests admitted that they saw no harm in the Judas hunt. "We take a neutral view, neither encouraging nor discouraging it," explained one. "It is part of the people's need for release...