Word: chez
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Well," said Lisa with resignation, "it's a leettle difficult when one has never been chez Maxime, but I think the feeling will come." The feeling came with the addition of some falsies.* There were crises over shoes (wrong ankle straps) and gloves (too shiny) and the necklace (too large). But presently the massed lights went on, all shadows withering in the merciless crossplay. (Many models are less than brilliant conversationalists. Says Lisa, an excellent one: "Sometimes I think all these hot lights numb the brain...
...Farms, gawked earnestly at the gleaming Emerald Buddha in the Grand Palace temple. Bangkok's shops were bulging with niello silverware, hand-woven silks, carved teak heads and snakeskin bags. What was more, the prices were low. For lunch the visitors ate cold prawns in the air-conditioned Chez Eve,* while an Indonesian quartet imported from Singapore played Slow Boat to China...
Singer Sarah Vaughan, the "Bop" girl, was at the Chez Maurice; Roger Dann, "the young Maurice Chevalier," was at the Gayety vaudeville house, where Stripteaser Lili St. Cyr had just finished a four-week run. Besides the Gayety, there were strippers at the Roxy, Rockhead's Paradise and the Café St. Michel...
...gossip columnists, Irv Kupcinet finds nightclubs exciting, and gets some of the excitement into his column. Every night, sportily dressed in a shirt with long Sinatra-style points (and with KUP loudly emblazoned on his handkerchief, tie clasp, cuff links and gold ring) he patrols such spots as Chez Paree and the Shangri-La, slapping backs, sipping coffee, soaking up column items. His red-haired wife tags along, often wearing a blouse stenciled with his columns. He haunts the Pump Room of the swank Ambassador East Hotel, a telephone plugged in at his table. Even at home, where he keeps...
...could now just about buy two eggs for what a whole chicken would have cost them before the war, were most incensed of all. Suzanne Kerguelen, famed around the Neuilly food market for her sharpness of tongue, spoke for them all when she said: "Ça, va mal chez moi, comme partout" ("Things are tough at home, and tough all over"). Said Jacques Rumpert, a petit bourgeois like millions of others, who runs a typewriter repair shop at Montparnasse: "Que voulez-vous? I worked hard all my life. My aim was to have a house, with a small garden...