Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME printed under the heading THE PRESS an item to the effect that the so-called Parisian number of JUDGE had been barred from the mails. TIME implied that the barring had been done not without the request and consent of the publisher, Douglas H. Cooke. TIME has been unfair to JUDGE, to President Cooke, to Editor Anthony. Apologies are herewith made, and thanks are offered to E. R. Crowe for having brought justice to pass...
Later, as the opulent proprietor of 15 dynamite factories located throughout the world," Mr. Nobel developed many whims unrelated to explosives. For example, he was fond of pictures yet tired so easily of them that he preferred not to buy any. An obliging Parisian art dealer accommodated him. Mr. Nobel might choose any pictures which struck his fancy, and the dealer would rent them to him until he grew irritable and called for others...
...Last Edition was doomed to dislike by the newspaper commentators. It is a newspaper melodrama done without regard to verity. Possibly it is not so utterly unlike journalism as society pictures are unlike society, or Parisian underworld pictures are unlike Montmartre. Rich people and French cocottes have no opportunity and probably small inclination to complain, but not so the critics when they dislike the distorted version of their colleagues. Furthermore it was pretty stilted melodrama...
...suppressed issue was called "The Parisian Number"; on its mottled cover a young woman, silhouetted in white-space, stepped into the profile of a bathtub over the caption "Cut Out by the Censor"; on its first page appeared a joke that was characteristic of the issue?a joke printed in French, and making a play of the words "habits" (clothes) and "explorer" (to go through). "Translation on page 31," said the editors. "Ha! this matter must be salacious," cried the vulgar reader: ". . . habits de mon mari. J'ai I'habitude de les explorer tous les soirs." Though ignorant of French...
...PARISIAN NUMBER OF JUDGE IS BARRED