Word: nouveaux
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...salon is a meeting place for high-ranking Nazis and highly placed French collaborationists. Corinne came by her preference for Germans honestly. Her father, Jean Luchaire, is a leader of the pro-Nazi National People's Party, editor of the Nazi-controlled Le Matin and Les Nouveaux Temps...
...young people have a great American thirst to improve themselves. They are the nouveaux riches of culture, fond of words like "whence," "whereof" and "elucidate." A beautiful word like "osculation" serves Bella the double purpose of showing both learning and gentility...
Corinne Luchaire, 20 (Prison Without Bars), protegee two years ago of British Cinemaproducer Alexander Korda. Her father has been made publisher of Le Matin and Les Nouveaux Temps...
...ROCHAS in deep blue over the lintel, it sits in a row of old brownstone apartments, like a blue-eyed blonde on a bench with pickaninnies. Inside is a big desk which no one, however pompous, may pass without presenting an invitation (issued this week only to socialites and nouveaux riches)-a barrier raised partly for swank, partly to keep out style pirates of whom couturiers have a healthy fear, in spite of the fact that to make cheaply a good copy of either the drapery or workmanship of a fine dress is often virtually impossible...
...neat Georgian houses set in landscaped parks but also to commute between them and the metropolis. We say "almost exclusively" because of one section which is called "the Valley" and deserves the name for social as well as geographical considerations. Here live the negro families, as well as the nouveaux arrives: Italians, Poles, Greeks: forming an untouchable world apart but a convenient object for the charitable inclinations of the towns-women...