Word: bravo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, clad in a tasteful Dior black wool suit with blue stole, Mannequin Lucky led a protesting detachment of 150 models into Paris' famed Palais de Justice. "This tribunal," said Presiding Magistrate Marcian Dumont, when evidence was all in, "approves of your fine work and says 'bravo.' " Nevertheless, Lucky had broken the law and must pay "a penalty of principle." Somberly the judge pronounced sentence: a fine of 60?. Borne from the courtroom in triumph on the shoulders of heftier companions, Lucky promised to win from the government formal permission to continue her Association Mutuelle...
...pedaled into Paris' Pare des Princes, a comfortable 15 min., 49 sec. ahead of Switzerland's Kubler. Third man in the Tour's history to win twice running, Bobet earned $28,500 in prize money, an estimated $43,000 in extras and France's heartfelt bravo...
...former victim of IFD (Idealization-Frustration-Demoralization) and a former student of Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa, allow me to offer a ... realistic bravo for your article [July 12] expressing his thoughts on popular song lyrics ... It may help offset the frustration and demoralization that are so prevalent these days due to our willingness to rear another generation on word symbolism...
...Bravo pour le Clown (Edith Piaf; Angel LP). Eight over-orchestrated songs of the sadder aspects of life and love, one of them (the title song) a rowdier than usual pagliaccio-type item that fits Piaf as closely as a putty nose. Perhaps more timely in France, where La Piaf is now touring with a circus...
Escape from Fort Bravo. High-style horse opera, a worthy stablemate to Shane and High Noon; with William Holden, John Forsythe (TIME...