Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his worldly smile, his instinctive savoir faire when fashions followed each other with bewildering rapidity, he made it possible for some of the piquancy of the Parisian world to trickle through the staid, stuffy circles of English aristocracy, justly rating TIME'S relegation to "dilettante Mayfair," but Edward VII lives in the hearts of lovers of good living and the archives of great cookery. Chefs all over the world, viewing with dismay the dullness of the fare at Buckingham Palace under George and Mary, sigh for the bon vivant Edward VII, whose passing, commemorated in such strange fashion...
...Congo River to French Equatorial Africa's capital, Brazzaville, thence by rail to the seacoast, thence by sea to France. No. 1 of these seven corpses was the body of French Equatorial Africa's new Governor General Edouard Renard. Last year he indignantly resigned a snug Parisian job as president of the Paris Municipal Council when his good friend Jean Chiappe was forced to quit as Chief of the Paris Police. Soaring with him over the steaming, noisome jungle went his swank second wife, Dutch relict of a U. S. soap manufacturer, Michael Winburn (Omega, Cadum...
...story centers around one Vachette, a timid economical library clerk. Having met a bowitching Parisian lady for a few moments, he imagines her his mistress and invents numerous devices to prove it to his library associates...
...Parisian institution that lends its name to the production receives only a minimum of attention, which is just as well, since the poor "Folies" as interpreted by cosmopolitan Hollywood seem to have taken on the Busy Berkeley tradition, all of which we greet with cautious skepticism and even displeasure. Although a prepossessing list of now songs are advertised, none of them seem very promising. It is the mistaken identity with which the film stands or falls, and as far as we are concerned we like this sort of thing...
...sidewalk outside the University Theater took on a Parisian atmosphere last night when a portable gentlemen's retiring room made an unscheduled appearance for the benefit of the theater-going public...