Word: distinguee
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After the Germans smashed the Second Empire in 1870, a number of refugees from occupied Alsace fled to Paris. Among them was Leonard Lipp, who opened across the boulevard from the Flore a little brasserie ornamented with luxurious blue and green tropical birds on its tiled walls. Lipp's has...
But there was more to the old Nick than a Ph.D. from Sing Sing. He was a man of resplendent metaphor. His shoe trees were casts that had been made from his feet, and he described himself as distingue. W. C. Fields modeled his style, his speech and his manner...
Back of the last row in a famed Parisian theatre, an old man leaned heavily on his cane. A bushy white beard he had, and silken hair on his head, tres distingue.
WITH whom the idea of a "Collegiate spectrum" first originated could hardly be ascertained now; but it seems the most natural thing in the world for a college, like other associations of men, to choose a color or colors to be the symbol of its individuality and of a friendly...
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