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Word: parisian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to popular legend, Frenchmen are not emotional, like Germans, but the most rational race in the world. In a Parisian salle d'armes last week one Dr. Armand Massard, inventive swordsman, President of the Parisian Federation of Fencing, exhibited a device to rationalize duelling. Frenchmen applauded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stab Register | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

Paul Morand, French novelist quoted in a Boston newspaper, confirms the belief that most muses, at least, are mercenary. According to this Parisian observer. The United States is not the big adolescent boor that it used to be. Newly-graduated students of American Universities who have returned from abroad suave, polished, and touched with Europe will be pained to hear that culture passed them by on their first voyage, going the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERNATIONAL POOR RELATIONS | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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