Word: fortunia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With this thought to goad him, and a stock of U.S. period pieces to lend atmosphere, Bernardin opened a night club in the style of the wild and woolly West, complete with waiters in candy-striped shirtsleeves, banjo players and a suitably active, shapely and deciduous stripper named Miss Fortunia. Fortunia's act at the Crazy Horse Saloon caught on like a prairie fire. By last week Le Striptease was sweeping Paris from Montparnasse to Montmartre, and even seeping out of the city to enliven the sleepy provinces. "It's bigger than the cancan," exulted one nightclub owner...
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