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Word: ormolu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clignancourt and onto the plain of Saint-Ouen, where the army occasionally held maneuvers. Here the evicted peddlers settled down, offered their trinkets for sale to passersby. When the army seemed not to object, they put up awnings over their merchandise, built flimsy wooden booths. They sold everything from ormolu clocks to cracked washbasins, and one of their most popular items was a cheap, "hard" mattress, usually filled with fleas. Thus, back in the 1890s, the famed Paris Flea Market began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Among the Fleas | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...Earrings of Madame De . . . A bubbling little masterpiece of ormolu romance and French wit; with Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 20, 1954 | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...Earrings of Madame De . . . A bubbling little masterpiece of ormolu romance and French wit; with Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...Earrings of Madame De . . . A bubbling little masterpiece of ormolu romance and French wit; with Charles Boyer. Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 6, 1954 | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...Earrings of Madame De . . . A bubbling little masterpiece of ormolu romance and French wit; with Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 30, 1954 | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

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