Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scandalized Anglo-Saxon correspondents reported, last week, that the shoe shop 01 one smart Parisian .business, snatches ;has doubled sales within the past month, simply _ because each salesman now raise- feminine foot with gallant yet reverent gesture and implants kiss just above toes on instep...
...stucco walls, its stone front, is more an English mansion than a Japanese residence. Within, awaiting them, were the ancient customary gifts: the Tai, king of fishes, the cask of purified saké, the hemp, incense, seaweed. There also was the bride's elaborate trousseau, including many a Parisian gown. Throughout the house sprawled electricity, plumbing. And further, Prince and Princess had gone to live in their very own home, not in the old fashioned way to the home of the bridegroom's parents. Further the Princess is not of imperial blood which formerly would have made...
...jargon of the Coquillards, a medieval freemasonry of blackguards who systematically plundered, lechered, toped throughout France. He wrote vigorous verses, high poetry. Behind these two varying expressions was a weathercock temperament. Born in 1431, he was raised from the age of seven in the home of a benign Parisian priest. Francois took both the bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Paris. One midnight, when the priest had gone to bed, the student crept out the door, made his way to the Pomme de Pin. There he swilled many a mugful. With him were...
...Duchess," relict of John W. Mackay (Croesus of mines & cables), mother of Clarence H. Mackay (president of Postal Telegraph Co.); of heart disease in Roslyn, L. I., N. W. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., the daughter of Civil and Mexican war veteran Col. Daniel C. Hungerford and his onetime Parisian wife, it was she who in the early '60s braved a squalid, vulgar Nevada mining town with her first husband, one Dr. Bryant. After his death she kept a boarding house in the mining camps. To her table came John W. Mackay, Irish immigrant miner. They were married...
Paul Poiret, Parisian dressmaker, last week flayed the indecency of short skirts. Said he: "Parisian dressmakers are forced to admit they are in perfect accord with Pope Pius. . . . Women have lost by want of mystery. . . . Modern woman should wear skirts a trifle longer and more decent...