Word: boise
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are many things to draw him there. He is an enthusiastic amateur Egyptologist; his 14-room apartment near the Bois de Boulogne is cluttered with Egyptian statuettes and old Dutch etchings. He also likes to take an occasional lesson in "harmonious coordination of mind and body" at Madame Codreano...
A handsome, wealthy young Briton came up from his country home one day last week to stay with his brother at the Ritz in London and have a talk with his doctor. Society reporters knew him as the Hon. Peter Beatty, one of Britain's "most eligible bachelors." Sportwriters...
Disillusion in London. In Paris, the golden skies and wide boulevards played to bigger crowds than the Communists. The Reds marched into the Place de la Bastille, lilies of the valley in their lapels artd clenched fists raised skyward. Across the glittering city in the Bois de Boulogne, 100,000...
Author Lewis doesn't let him have an easy time. Aaron falls half in love with a girl he meets at the Missionary Home, Selene Lanark, "all vigor, speed, tautness . . . She was on the tall side, slender, rather tanned: olive-brown of skin with a wonderful smoothness to it...
Before the gendarmes arrived, Stravinsky scrambled out a backstage window. At 2 in the morning he piled into a cab with Nijinsky, Diaghilev and his friend Jean Cocteau, and drove through the Bois de Boulogne. Cocteau remembers: "We were silent; the night was cool and clear. The odor of the...