Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having described how horse meat is palmed off upon Americans in Paris, why did you not add that "smart Americans" who make any pretense of being gourmets now occasionally demand fillet de cheval in Paris, simply because it is more delicious than what I suppose TIME would call "many a beefsteak...
corruptionist de luxe...
...Alexander Powell, author, War correspondent, marched down the gangplank of the He de France, told of a tiger hunt with the Maharaja of Patiala. Mighty hunter, the Maharaja wore $250,000 black pearls in his ears, traveled in one of his 220 automobiles which include 42 Rolls-Royces...
Mabel Boll, "Queen of Diamonds," whose trans-Atlantic conversation enlisted the aid of famed Passenger Charles A. Levine; who has been photographed in innumerable poses beside innumerable planes, whose flight to Rome has been a day-by-day concern of the tabloids, sailed quietly on the He de France. Big, buxom, German Thea Rasche, another trans-Atlantic threat, also looked up steamship sailings...
...Chuckled wickedly when a crimson blush of shame suffused the countenance of the young Edward Southwell Russell, Baron de Clifford. His mother-in-law, Mrs. Kate Merrick, "Queen of London Night Club Keepers," has been sentenced to six months in jail for selling liquor after hours. Therefore the young Lord blushed and visibly perspired when the scathing Earl of Birkenhead remarked: "We hear of Peers denouncing drinking in the slums. But they seldom say a word about the evil caused by night clubs ... in connection with which the mother-in-law of two members of Your Lordship's House recently...