Word: maison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personable wife, who serves as his secretary, live there along with an invaluable housekeeper. Mr. Leggewie, coincidently, also taught on the coast but did not meet Berrien until both came east. Following his graduation from the University of Southern California, he taught there and at La Maison Francaise of Mills College (Oakland). There has been one other resident couple prior to the Leggewie...
...Which includes New Orleans' Maison Blanche, Memphis' B. Lowenstein & Bros., Birmingham's Loveman, Joseph & Loeb, Louisville's Kaufman-Straus, Miami's Richard Store, Philadelphia's Lit Bros., Trenton's Swern's Store, Hartford's Wise, Smith's, Boston's R. H. White, and the Oppenheim, Collins & Co. chain with branches in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Buffalo, White Plains and Garden City, N.Y., East Orange and Morristown, N.J., and Philadelphia...
Last week Parisians were flocking to the government's Maison de la Pensee Française to see Picasso's latest. Most of the canvases were slightly more rakish versions of pictures Picasso had painted before. He had splashed on his oils thicker and brighter than ever; some of his nudes had developed a disconcerting habit of projecting their faces onto stark white islands above their multicolored and bulbous torsos...
...revolting," said a fastidious diner at a West End hotel. "I simply couldn't stomach horseflesh." And with that she went on spreading her toast with the savory pâté maison which only the trade called by its proper name: processed horse...
...Crime dans une Maison de Fous (Crime in a Booby Hatch) is about two yellow-fanged old hags who are miffed at a new inmate because she is young and pretty. While one harridan pinions the newcomer's wrists, the other wrenches back her head and plunges long scissors into her eye. "La! La!" she cries happily as gore spatters in all directions. When the hags have a difference of opinion, one shoves her pal against a red-hot stove...