Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time Little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria went about Paris with utmost decorum, accepted his entourage of detectives with no effort either to entertain or to elude them, and moved Parisian Bulgarians to cry: "Every inch a Tsar! Long live His Majesty...
...descendant of St. Louis, King of France. The special virtue of Maria Filippetto (1912-27) was "patient suffering for the love of God." Antonito Martinez Herrera (1920-29) was known for his "humility and charity." Guy de Font-galland (1913-25), son of an aristocratic Parisian family, made his First Communion at 7, wished to become a missionary priest but believed he heard a voice say: "My little Guy, I shall take you; you will die young; you will not be My priest; I desire to make you My angel." Marie Thèrèse Wang...
Monet had but two interests, painting and gardening. Paris appalled him. He is never known to have made a quotable remark. Manet and his friends Degas and Clemenceau could and did trade epigrams with the sharpest tongues of the Second Empire. He was Parisian to the core, a dandy in his dress...
...French Casino (7th Ave. and 50th) presents a spectacular floor show in the real Parisian manner. Jack Denny plays. There is a minimum charge of $3.50 on Saturdays...
Admitting with a cynicism which one would think too callous even for Gallic minds, that the League of Nations has never been more than a stooge for her own European machinations, France is unwilling to lift even one tapering Parisian finger to raise it out of a chaos in which slie has no interest. Now that the League has done its dirty work, France finds herself in the embarrassing position of the housewife who must once and for all get rid of an old servant without having the neighbors accuse her too loudly of cruelty and ingratitude...