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Word: parisian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naughty Riquette. Into some nonsense about a naughty Parisian telephone operator who proves in Monte Carlo that she is honest, the Shuberts have cast two capable performers. Mitzi, light-footed, long-haired, emerges from the dim past to yodel stale lines with broad vocal nuances. About her plump, Hungarian person the show revolves. From Stanley Lupino, English comedian, it draws its light. This superb clown flashes one of the season's gems in his sensational disclosure of the shocking impotence of Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Smith and Lloyd George, none of whom can lay eggs, grow ostrich feathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 27, 1926 | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

...Parisian editors were driven rumor-frantic by Mr. Mellon's secretive arrival. So certain were they that he would go to the Hotel Crillon and at once order "a New England boiled dinner" that two of the lesser journals reported he had done so. What did this unnatural-in-an-American conduct portend? Obviously a secret conference was to be held upon the Ile St. Louis. Cherchez le conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Mellon Hunt | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...debts with MM. Briand and Poincaré last week-he could call on them for so short a time that no discussion of anything would be possible. He did. With Premier Poincaré he chatted affably lor 16 minutes. Nine minutes sufficed for his call on Foreign Minister Briand. Parisian editors were vexed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Mellon Hunt | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

Died. Col. Henry Herman Harjes, president of Morgan, Harjes & Co., Parisian representative of J. P. Morgan & Co.; at Trouville, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 30, 1926 | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...insistent official foreign protest has not been considered at the Secretary's office. With many more demonstrations like the Parisian episode, Mr. Kellogg can, perhaps, envision the story from another angle, perhaps as psychologically delineated by Author Dos Passos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Italians | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

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