Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sick of the sweet and dreary musical comedies which littered Broadway, he produced The Follies, a revue which took its name from the Parisian Folies Bergères and duplicated its gay and daring makeup. New Yorkers, at this time innocent of the malpractice which has since become famous as the "buttock and leg show," danced with frantic eagerness to see what Ziggy* had done. They discovered over the door the legend which, however inaccurate or uncomplimentary it may have seemed, described its author's business in terms that have been remembered. "Glorifying the American Girl" was the legend...
Champions. Astute M. André Geraud, famed as Pertinax, leading Parisian journalist-oracle, has said of the present election: "Socialism would appear to be the principal issue . . . or rather, the battle will be fought between the uncompromising opponents of socialism and the people who halfway disapprove...
...Dresden, Vienna, and Paris combined have nothing in the way of feminity to rival her. She portrays dramatically--a la bare back and silver wig--a woman whose ruined life was brought about through her husband's indifference. A railroad wreck, gambling dens in full blast, interiors of choice Parisian restaurants, and sorrowful close-ups of Pola drenching her little girl with a shower of joyful tears at the end, make the picture very enjoyable for students leading suppressed lives and rebelling against the monotonous humdrum of Cambridge...
...Pasteur Institute and the French Government are generous patrons of renowned Dr. Serge Voronoff, the tall, deft Parisian surgeon who grafts fresh, invigorating glands into animals or men who seem to need them...
Paul Poiret, famed Parisian couturier, declared last week that he will transfer his business domicile from Paris to Manhattan, next October. He will do business in a Park Avenue apartment, as unshop-like as possible. The sensation caused by this announcement was inferior only to that stirred some months ago, when M. Poiret appeared for the first time since boyhood with his face denuded of the dark, fascinating beard which every woman knew...