Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When once identified as Americans, both Harvard men found their Soviet acquaintances quite friendly. Berman noted no hostility and considers typical a conversation he had with a Russian lawyer one night after the theater. Meeting in a cafe at eleven o'clock, they walked around Red Square and talked openly about Russia and America for two and a half hours. Then the Russian finally said, in the manner of one who is putting a delicate question, "We have been quite frank with each other; let me now ask you a frank question: Why does your government not pass...
...soul of matronly dignity. One night last week, wearing a black-lace-over-taffeta dress, a rope of artificial pearls and a corsage of roses pinned demurely over her ample midriff she stepped quietly in front of Bob Scobey's Dixieland combo in Oakland's Showboat Cafe. When she let fly with Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jelly Roll, she rocked the Showboat. She clapped her hands, snapped her fingers shuffled her feet, flapped her elbows. The singer was New Orleans' Lizzie Miles, 60 one of the last of a great generation...
...Only Takes Two. Sylvester seldom peddles nightclub scandal, but likes to take a good-natured poke at such cafe society figures as the interior decorator for neurotics who "specializes in furniture made of overwrought iron" and the Sultan's son who "drives a foreign elephant." He is an authority on functional (if fictitious) drinks, e.g., the Mambo cocktail ("two of these and you can't stop shaking"), the Instant cocktail ("two drinks and you have your hangover immediately") and the Do-It-Yourself cocktail ("two of them and no one can help you"). And he has, to date...
...with the cruise. ("I did get a boat for her. but I don't see why I should be mentioned all the time.") The other belonged to "Wally,'' Duchess of Windsor, whose well-publicized feuding with Elsa is a matter of far greater study to international cafe society than all the legends of all the Grecian Isles. With regal precision, Wally, who was not invited on the cruise, timed her arrival in Venice to coincide exactly with that of Elsa's guests. "His Royal Highness and I come here," she cooed to a reporter, "expressly...
Curl of Smoke. Moroccans did, after their fashion. On Bastille Day, Moroccan flags flew alongside the French Tricolor, the streets were thronged with French and Moroccan strollers, and the cafe terraces were packed...