Word: frances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prince Louis's Casino were threadbare. Only two gambling rooms were open, for chance's devotees had shrunk to a handful of shabby Frenchmen and Spaniards, a Greek, a Turk. Some of the players-oh, calamity-wore polo shirts. One wrinkled woman, 92, still wagered 50-franc chips as she had done daily for a quarter century. Others jotted down numbers in notebooks. These were the survivors...
...political wake. As soon as it was produced in the fall of 1943, Director Sam Wood was hauled over a bed of hot coals not only for toning down Hemingway's use of sex and swearing, but also for deliberately dodging the political issue at stake, notably by calling Franc's men Nationalists rather than Fascists...
...know what it costs some of TIME & LIFE'S correspondents to live and work in Paris, so I asked three of them to give me an account of their expenses on a typical day. The day we picked was January 18. And here is what we spent in francs (you can get francs in the black market for less than the pegged price, but we buy all ours at the legal rate of 2? U. S. per franc...
Correspondent Lael Tucker got up in a 400-franc Lancaster Hotel room, washed in cold water, breakfasted on three slices of bread and butter supplemented with honey brought from the south of France and cafe national (burnt barley)- cost of breakfast, 100 francs. Her car broke down half way to an appointment, so the final three-quarter -mile trip in a Velo taxi cost 300 francs. She took a member of the Consultative Assembly to a moderate-priced restaurant for lunch - 700 francs. Bought a plain white handkerchief to blow her nose in - 90 francs. Bought a weekly supply...
Correspondent Elmer Lower arose in a 175-franc room in the Scribe Hotel, breakfasted for 20 francs, spent the morning running to & fro in Paris with Dave Scherman taking pictures for TIME & LIFE. Velo taxis- 1000 francs. He lunched for 20 francs at the Scribe (no wine), spent 2 francs getting to the office on the metro, took a member of France...