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...solemn glass of tea. From Linga, the Pink Pearl journeys to Bombay or Bagdad, where foreign experts laud its lustre, symmetry, and flawlessness; drive less ceremonious bargains; swaddle the Pink Pearl in fluffy cotton; scurry back, elated, to the great jewellers of Fifth Ave., Bond St., Rue de la Paix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Superlatives Exhausted | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Woman enters shoe store in Rue de la Paix. Salesman removes shoe. What then shall salesman do with foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Business Snatching | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...less coldness than anyone else who covered him in Paris. Therefore Manhattan's Times sent suave Scot MacDonald from France to the U. S. on the same warboat that carried the Colonel home. Last week Mr. MacDonald, long since back in Paris, was strolling down the Rue de la Paix when the biggest French story of the week broke before his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Whizz--the Police! | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

There a group of youthful artists learns to applaud her studied phrases, but they lose their charm "all kneeling," and her "yen" for adulation turns to other fields. She prefers "a pink-and-yellow apple" to "all the jewels in the Rue de la Paix," but marries a rich man and surrounds herself with the luxuries she pretends to despise. Too soon, she learns that her husband thinks more of his golf and his naps than of the blue, blue sky. "What peace it would be," she writes in her journal, "to let my body enter the sea, and sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Virile Tang | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...same time, may I point out an inaccuracy which may cause embarrassment to those of your distinguished readers, who, having read this article, should expect to see the late Jean Philippe Worth when they visit the House of Worth on the Rue de la Paix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

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