Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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François Coty, perfume manufacturer, fabulously rich, was elected to the Senate by a narrow majority of six votes. He is Senator for Corsica, island birthplace of Napoleon, south of France. M. Coty is head of the house of Coty, Parisian perfumers, whose exquisite products under alluring names are known to the world and his wife-particularly his wife. Among M. Coty's best known perfumes are: L'Origan, L'Or, La Rose Jaqueminot, Chype...
SEVENTH HEAVEN-A long snake-whip and a rendering of La Marseillaise off-stage are the emotional assistants to Helen Menken in a skillfully concocted assembly of Parisian eccentrics...
...Austrian cold wave. Also, the Parisian. Also the British. And the Italian...
...There was once an American in Fans who wanted to see a good show. Not the Comedie Francaise, you understand, but one of those typically Parisian shows that has made Montmartre a symbol for sinful frivolity in New York, Junction City and Pleasantville. So he told the hotel porter and the porter got him a ticket for a real good show at a theatre possibly named the Vaudeville. "Ah," thought the American, practicing a wicked wink. Now ] 11 see some snappy stuff! " He went?and discovered himself viewing a gay little piece entitled Pasteur, a review of that scientist...
...Satie's published compositions that is wholly adapted to the conditions of the concert room. In this production, which will be heard for the first time tonight, Satie bases the music on extracts from the Dialogues of Plato. It is also one of the soberest pieces that the singular Parisian has set to music...