Word: paix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vanderbilt. Europe has copied our worst things- the ugly stupidity of our iron civilization. She is sacrificing her originality to wear clothes like an inhabitant of the gopher prairies, to make Unter den Linden look like Main Street and elect a Babbitt Mayor of the Rue de la Paix. The English language is revered over here as Latin was in the Middle Ages. . . . America must not grow too proud. After all, we are a great country, but not a great people. And everything was there to make America a great country, so God did it, not ourselves...
...Mellon cheerful, well bronzed with vacation tan, obstinately refused to do anything but enjoy himself. He purchased outrageously hued pajamas in the Rue de la Paix. He motored innocuously in the Bois de Boulogne. He even "saw sights." Only once could it be discovered that he "dined in conference." Even that was a mere luncheon at the home of M. Rousseau, attended by two U. S. financiers: Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank and Dwight W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & Co. Finally Mr. Mellon dropped in at the U. S. Embassy and was reminded of a duty...
...TIME, July 5), Alfonso XIII, high-spirited, sartorially perfect, fundamentally virile, troubled himself far more over purchasing a new racing car, than with rumors that the French police had barely thwarted an attempt upon his life. While his Queen, Victoria Engénie, shopped in the Rue de la Paix, the King's motor attained a speed so terrific on the broad Champs Elysées that he distanced not only his official escort but also several motorcycle policement, who, not knowing his identity, gave chase with intent to accomplish his arrest...
...stops the show. The music otherwise is tuneful, if not epochal. The song "A Girl in Your Arms is Worth Two in Your Dreams" is good musically, although its philosophy is open to serious question. Mr. Buzzell offers a pleasing rapid-fire patter song called "Rue de la Paix", the words of which we planned to remember to tell our roommates, but which, unfortunately, we have already forgotten...
...young English lady, the supporting cast including Mr. Henry Lawson, Mr. Mark Polonsky, and Mr. Walter T. Littlefield. Mr. du Gord, who a few years ago played at La Comedie Francaise in Paris with Cecile Sorel, will play the part of the interpreter. The second play is titled "La Paix Chez Soi", and this will be its first presentation in Boston. Miss Suzanne Lambert and Mr. C. R. Codman II '15 will head the cast...