Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight brought the first definite answer to the Koutiepoff riddle. La Liberté, Parisian evening daily, published a special edition, charged that six days earlier General Alexander Paul Koutiepoff was seen battered but still alive in a cell in Moscow's Loubianskaia prison...
...work was prolific, typically Parisian: spirited, gay, colorful, slightly malicious. His whiskered gallants, snorting horses and elegant courtesans completely picture Victorian and Second Empire Europe, make Britain's John Leech seem as stodgy as bread pudding...
...velvet waistcoats shouted themselves hoarse in the galleries, banged the heads of equally violent young classicists in the pit. With their passion for exactness, French professors have chosen that date as the beginning of the movement in literature and art known as Romanticism, the age of Sentiment. The Parisian art world has made much of the Centenary of Romanticism this winter. But until last week New York's only notice of the occasion was the appearance of Eggs Alfred de Musset on the menus of some of the more effete speakeasies. The Balzac Galleries rushed into the breach last...
Born in Holland in 1802 of French parents, Constantin Guys began his career as an illustrator about the time that the fateful Hernani was produced. As Parisian as Baudelaire in his tastes, it was his fate to spend much of his active life in Turkey, Greece, Spain, Algeria, the Crimea, as a staff artist for the Illustrated London News. He died in Paris in 1892, having spent the last seven years of his life in bed with a broken leg. He was intimate with Thackeray, Théophile Gautier, Delacroix, Manet, Baudelaire. Few artists had more affectionate friends...
...Glass of Water. About one hundred years ago Parisian society waxed ecstatic over the plays of a romanticist, Augustin Eugene Scribe, whose name is still glamorous to many drama students. Anyone who wishes to learn what ridiculous and hollow charades enthralled Paris of the '305 and '405 may now see the American Laboratory Theatre perform a play of Scribe's in which Queen Anne of England, the Duchess of Marlborough and a simple heroine named Abigail Churchill vie with each other for the favors of a Captain of the Guards. The entanglements are also political. Attired...