Word: demi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contrasting with this central love affair, a pair of ultra-sophisticated demi-mondaines cross "our boy and girl's" path, yawning at each other with remarks such as, "Is this your lighter that I found under my pillow, or does it belong to Jacques?" While these two sip cognac in a fancy burlesque, "our two" gulp coffee at a sidewalk cafe. Both women call their lovers "Mon Petit." When one Mon Petit loses his duck, Napoleon, the other Mon Petit wonders why anyone would bother to put a string around a duckling's neck. This dichotomy arises often enough...
...charting the whiplash currents of the Japanese temperament, swerving in an instant from refinement to cruelty. His tilt with tradition is spirited but distinctly un-Japanese. Since 1950, the Kinkakuji has been meticulously rebuilt, and may well gaze at its limpid image in the Kyoko Pond for another demi-millennium...
...read with great interest your recent article on commuters at Harvard. I went to M.I.T. '30 and while I lived in Monday through Friday, I went home every weekend to save money, and had practically no social life. I was a sort of a "demi-com-muter...
Even those who have maintained membership on a CRIMSON board throughout their undergraduate years agree that their six to eight weeks as candidates were among the most valuable they spent in Cambridge. After-dinner pool upstairs in the Union or demi-taste in the House common room may have to be dropped for the duration of this intensive training period, but academic work need not suffer...
...week an artful bee volant from Hoboken was buzzing about the prettiest hive ever to bear the illustrious Beatty name. Frank Sinatra, who recently proved in Madison, Ind. (TIME, Aug. 25) that he puts on some of his most striking performances offscreen, was being demilionized by London society and demi-society, while the press eagerly predicted that he was about to marry pretty, brunette Countess Beatty, 36, the former Adelle Dillingham O'Connor of Oklahoma City...