Word: chic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known in Montmartre, was famed for her hatred of priests. When Baudry took over the parish and got a job as a garage mechanic, he made Lulu's bar his first stopping place, dressed in his greasy work clothes. After his third visit, barflies agreed he was "un chic type." As he was leaving, Baudry mentioned casually to Lulu that he would be back soon, "but I have a lot of work in my parish, you know-I'm the new local priest." When his bar friends refused to believe him, he made his next visit to Lulu...
...Chic & the Egg. For five days expansive Adhemar treated Rio to a brand of shirt-sleeved, handshaking, backslapping, speechmaking politics such as the city had rarely seen. Dozens of taxis paraded him and his party to the Copacabana Palace Hotel, while sound-trucks prowled the streets announcing his presence. Well-wishers swarming up to his suite forced the hotel's chic patrons to use the service elevators. Beamed Adhemar: "These wonderful, wonderful people...