Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wisely remarks, Prohibition never seems so puerile and stringent as when one sits outside of a Parisian care thinking of the homeland. Those who are forced to endure it weather the storm amiably enough, probably never realizing their utter contemptibility. Likewise is the case with that popular being--the moron. "A moron in Europe is just a moron; to America he is something more." To be exact he is a movement, a symbol, a danger, a type he is anything but an individual. This tendency of Americans to make shibboleths of casual remarks of foreigners and men without countries...
...Parisian Ire. The semi-official Parisian journals fulminated last week against Signer Mussolini for having, in their opinion, deliberately caused his agents to egg on a plot which might well have embroiled France and Spain if it had gone much further...
...Royal Highness Alfonso, Prince of the Asturias, Crown Prince of Spain, was declared last week to be an hemophile by Le Matin, one of the least sensational of Parisian dailies. Le Matin's assertion that Prince Alfonso is subject to uncontrollable hemorrhages, as was the late Tsarevitch Alexis of Russia, served merely to define the nature of an illness long known to exist. Among other of Prince Alfonso's royal traits is, of course, the hereditary pouting nether lip of the Bourbons...
...Parisian hooligans made discourteous signs, insulting sounds last week, as many a Teuton spread before him Die Neue Pariser Zeitung. Skeptics concluded that the dove of peace has hatched naught more promising than this: the first German newspaper to resume publication in Paris since...
Mademoiselle Lenglen spoke English fluently in a low voice with just a trace of Parisian accent. Her manner was quite charming. The reporter forgot in his admiration to ask just how she got that straight back-hand drive and gabbled instead a trite question about professional tennis...