Word: paix
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sympathy for the Switzes, strong when they were supposed to be undergoing a French third degree, evaporated as Mrs. Switz appeared hard and swank in a costume from the Rue de la Paix and Mr. Switz slouched in the witness chair, reeling off sums of money which he said he paid to spies. Said the Switzes: "We did it all for France." Thus far their peaching has been valuable enough to bring them definite assurances that they will merely be deported...
...three months will the, horse chestnut trees on Paris' Champs-Elysees begin to turn yellow. Yet last week on the brief and severe Rue de la Paix autumn had already come. And on hand for its coming was an excited little army of U. S. dress buyers who crowded through closely-guarded doorways into the salons of the great Parisian couturiers. Inside the warm air was heavy with perfume and the smell of new silk. Buyers who usually paid $100 to get in (refunded on the first order) cocked their heads and adjusted their glasses as the sleek mannequins rustled...
...Parisians the excitement from the Etoile to the Rue de la Paix was an old story. As every fashion follower knows, there are two months in the year ? February and August ? when the couturiers throw open their shops to a select few to reveal in their "collections" what the best dressed women will wear during the next six months. Smaller midseason displays are held in April and November...
...designed a black & white sweater for herself. Her friends liked the smart melancholy of black in sportswear, urged her to take an attic in the rue de la Paix and set up as a designer. She did, in 1927. Two years later she moved down two flights. By 1932 her 400 employes were turning out between 7,000 and 8,000 garments a year and Mme Schiaparelli, with no previous experience and only five years' work, was the most discussed fashion-maker in Paris...
...This movement [conscientious objecting] is connected with the most diverse circles from the religious and professional points of view. . . . Pacifist associations such as the Ligue des Combattants de la Paix. the Ligue Internationale des Jeunes la Guerre, the Ligue Populaire des Reésistants a là Guerre, etc. believe that refusal to bear or manufacture arms is the most effective way to avoid war.∙ Officials belonging to the Departments of Education, Finance, and Posts & Telegraphs have openly shown their sympathy with 'conscientious objectors' who have recently been sentenced...