Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parisian custom of electing at Mi-Careme (mid-Lent) a Queen of Paris from Queens chosen by each of the 20 arrondissements, or wards, in Paris, will be discontinued. A new plan will be pursued by which each arrondissement will choose a " Bee." From these a " Queen-Bee " will be elected for the whole city. The usual festivities will be much curtailed except for the visit to the President. The Bees are to wear their own gowns instead of having " royal robes " supplied. Girls are to be picked for merit rather than for beauty, as formerly...
...condemnation of jazz, the tendency today is along the lines of diatonic music as against chromatic music, the vehicle of expression which Wagner employed. While the Vienese school is still adhering to the chromatic motif, the diatonic tendencies are experiencing a rapid development under the eager minds of Parisian composers...
...Beethoven's 9th Symphony. There seems no good reason why the resources of the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society should not be used in such a worthy cause. Mme. Frieda Hempel, of fine reputation, will sing some Mozart arias. Boston will hear, too, Honnegger, of the famous Parisian "six" long awaited hereabouts. Brahms' Academic Overture completes the program, a very noteworthy one, unfortunately (for Harvard men) coming the week-end of the Yale game...
...condemn the French, is there any rhyme or reason in sanctioning Shakespeare, Milton, Gibbon, even the Bible, in whose pages may be found "foul and indecent" passages? They too have been censored in the past. In fact, to put the shoe on the other foot, the Parisian authorities once, banned Fielding's "Tom Jones", to the righteous glee of Richardson, who had never forgiven Fielding for his burlesque on "Pamela". But today we accept classics in English as they are, dirty and not washed behind the ears, if you like, but still themselves, uncensored. To discriminate against such classics because...
...debt is mentioned. Yet France is not sure she wants the games, largely from a fear that she won't be able to win them or even make a good showing--and inglorious defeat would be insufferable in Paris. The same feeling is expressed as appeared in the Parisian dailies after the "Battle of the Century" last July: "America may have Dempsey, but remember Frenchmen, we have Verdun!" France and the Olympic question appear very much like a fussy old woman with a potato too hot for her fingers, which pride will not let her lay down. The unfortunate part...