Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inimitable, irrepressible, M. Léon Daudet, editor of the Parisian Royalist newspaper L'Action Française, escaped last week from the Prison Santé. He went there only after 3,000 policemen, firemen, soldiers, had overawed a band of his Royalists numbering 980, and forced him to submit to arrest (TIME, June 13 et seq.). It was a group of these keen-witted, although sometimes foppishly clad, Royalists who filched M. Daudet deftly out of jail last week and spirited him into hiding...
Meanwhile, in Paris, correspondents were asking: "Who is Count Pepito di Albertini?" Since the Parisian police keep a very careful record of all strangers, it was to M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe that reporters turned. They received a reply which was suavity itself: "Our records show that this gentleman came with Miss Baker from America, three years ago, as her manager. Their addresses in Paris have always been the same, although this residence has changed several times. The gentleman has never claimed a title other than 'Monsieur...
...Rapport, Polish, 22, of New York City, challenged Mr. Kelly to a polar marathon, claimed that Mr. Kelly's pretentions to the squatting championship were fraudulent in the extreme, inasmuch as he (Mr. Rapport) had once sat on a Parisian flagpole for 21 days. One Hugo Bihler, just-arrived German immigrant, who speaks no English, also challenged for the Sitting Sweepstakes, as did an unidentified Bostonian. Cried Mr. Kelly, belligerently, "Let those guys pick their poles and sit!" But none...
...women, and he learned about women-fat women -from umbrellas. He used to be an apprentice to an umbrella manufacturer, and he studied the lines and curves and ribs. He also turned around to look at women on the boulevards. In this he differed not a whit from other Parisian gentlemen, but he took notes. He then made sketches and sold them to dressmakers. Finally, the owner of a dress establishment gave him a job in return for a dog that M Poiret's father gave to the dress-place proprietor...
...Heart of Salome (Alma Rubens). How was dapper Monte Carrol, U. S. hero touring France, to realize that the entrancing Helene was not the sweet, good country lass she appeared to be in the shady bowers of Bretagne but really first assistant crook to Count Boris Zanko, Parisian archcriminal? When he discovers the truth, he calls her several bad names; and she, irritated, embarks upon revenge, thereby providing a Salome motif. Her weapon will be Count Boris, best swordsman in France. The thoroughgoing depravity of this fellow may best be understood when it is explained that he is Russian...