Word: doux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return mail three billet doux were received by as many Shipley misses from the philandering Princetonians who were duly apologetic...
...Examples: Peau Doux shaving cream (named after Mr. Walgreen's bulldog Po Do); hardware items such as Dart's O'namel (named after Son-in-Law Justin W. Dart...
...Widow from Monte Carlo (Warner) frames the noteworthy Aztec beauty of Dolores Del Rio in an inadequate story about an indiscreet duchess who suspects the man she loves of selling a billet-doux which has really been stolen from him. A sorry little romantic comedy in which Warren William, Colin Clive, Warren Hymer, Herbert Mundin and Louise Fazenda are also miscast, it is not improved by badinage like the following, between Mundin and Fazenda: "Having a nice time, Ducky?" "Don't call me Ducky!'' "All right, Ducky...
...friend and neighbor, had the money to spare, but he was having a love affair with Herendene's wife, which complicated matters. Upshot was that Hoxsie sold to the Providence company and Perry made a discretionary retreat to Europe. Mary Herendene's husband discovered a revealing billet doux from her lover. Hoxsie gave up hopeless farming and got the fishing boat he had pined for, but he hardly liked the sight of the cheap new houses springing up in his old fields. No one was very happy. Even 224 pages of doggerel would be an achievement, and Hoxsie...
Fine Arts--"Les Doux Orphelines". Notable because of the acting of Yvette Guilbert and some excellent photography. Otherwise not so good unless one likes a French combination of "Little Women" and "David Copperfield...