Word: maison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show as a whole says anything, it is simply that some of the United Nations have a richer artistic heritage than others. In general, the exhibits are skimpy and scarcely more representative of the various national cultures than those which the delegates might have encountered in the proposed international maison de joie...
...only at Walden for a short period, but is mainly associated with it. The Bowery is only one of the fox holes from which I have observed life. I have only lived there for short periods about twenty years apart and I do not consider that my present address (Maison Gerard, 311 West 33 St., New York City--ed.) is in the Bowery. A hundred years from now when the Charles T. Copeland of that period lectures at Harvard on Joe Gould and his circle he will point out that my life has always been distinguished by the wide variety...
Then he was off, by plane again, to Italy. In Rome last week, he lived at the maison mere of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (he is a member of the Order) near the Colosseum. The purpose of his trip, he said, was merely to visit Canadian troops, report to the Pope, as every bishop is required to do periodically...
...None of us were amateurs, of course," Suzette explained. "We had all worked at the Bal Tabarin since before the war. But we never collaborated. A year ago the Germans were gathering a complement to send to the Maison Oslo and they did not have quite enough volunteers. So they grabbed us. They told our troop of 42 that it was for six months...
Young Mr. Edison. After the war, Sturges returned to the Maison Desti. He knew a good deal about cosmetics, invented a kissproof lipstick. His mother, in England with a fourth husband, was on the rocks again. She claimed the business; he handed it over and went to work as a free-lance inventor. By the time he was 30 he was about as flat a failure as a man of his age and background could be. Then his appendix ruptured, and saved his life...