Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Jugoslavia is adjacent to the spur-wheel, ready to be prodded, it was the Jugoslav press of Belgrade which set up a cry last week that Italian officers in Albania are directing mobilization against Jugoslavia and hurrying the building of strategic roads. This charge was repeated by the Parisian press, for France and Jugoslavia are allies. Then King Alexander of Jugoslavia added to the war scare excitement...
...crones and lasses who sell magazines from Parisian kiosks on the grand boulevards were elated last week when a lean stalwart priest, the Abbé Bethlehem, 57, was finally arrested after he had seized from the kiosks and torn up at least 300 copies of those magazines in which the feminine thigh is perennially displayed in frilly netherthings like the paper lace on a lamb chop. Heedless that he had taken coppers from the purses and bread from the mouths of kiosk women too weak to resist him, the strapping Abbé cried: "If I saw poison being offered...
...later, at Christie's famed London auction room, the Imperial Russian nuptial crown- composed of double rows of brilliants, surmounted by a diamond cross-was placed on sale by the Soviet Government, hawked, cried up from an initial bid of $25,000, auctioned off at last to a Parisian jeweler, M. Founess...
...Parisian Beauty Shoppe" shows with fearless candor the hellish machines and devices with which ugly dowagers become pretty...
Premier Raymond Poincaré, ever an arch militarist, took full advantage of last week's war scare in the Belgian Parliament (see INTERNATIONAL) to trumpet through the inspired Parisian press that France must drastically increase her armaments. While this propaganda was at its height, he announced to the Chamber that the first important measure to be presented by the Cabinet during the present session (TIME, Nov. 22 et seq.) will be a bill appropriating several billion francs for armaments and fortification of the Franco-German and Franco-Italian frontiers. Marshal Foch, appearing before the Chamber in full uniform, declared...