Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where he will investigate the reported renaissance of dramatic effort, modeled about the great stage designing of several artists. If possible he will make his way into Russia to observe the work being done in Moscow. On his return to France he will inquire into the experiments of several Parisian producers...
Last week, an exhibition of the paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec was held in the Wildenstein Galleries, Manhattan. Between the years 1880 and 1890, this artist was often pointed out by habitues of the Moulin Rouge Cafe, Paris, to friends from out of town; a whisper passed from Parisian mouth to Provincial ear. Amazement, incredulity, re-assertion...
...Parisian smart set cannot permit things to go too far. They hark back to the sans-culottes that accompanied the dreaded Revolution...
...Guardia's letter was "outrageous." Another characterized the reference to overthrowing the U. S. Government as the "bombastic utterances of a political nonentity." Others made haste to state that the Grand Duke was not a pauper: he was coming with 22 trunks; the Duchess was bringing 100 Parisian gowns; (he was bringing his mother-in-law and a secretary; he had two large bank accounts in Manhattan...
...enable us to cast any slurs. This question of booing is a question of breeding rather than of nationality anyway-as witness the South Boston, aggregation in the Harvard Stadium not so long ago. And is it so inconceivable or so nationally insulting, that there should be a Parisian "South Boston...