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Word: parisian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After a Parisian judge had failed to settle their differences, Actress Jacqueline Delubac started divorce proceedings against her husband, famed Actor-Author Sacha Guitry. Meanwhile, the theatre receipts almost doubled as they continued to make love to each other night after night in Un Monde Fou ("A Mad World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...crew as ever walked up a gangplank: his expansive, motherly wife, who had once lived with natives in Madagascar; a blonde artist (niece of Paul Chabas, painter of September Morn); a Breton radio operator and his bitter-tongued fishwife; a Turkish engineer; a doctor and his wife, a Parisian hairdresser who filled her trunk with useless sport clothes; a mechanic and his wife; about 25 common seamen and lobstermen. Another bad mistake de Boers made before setting out from sunny St. Malo, France last May was to skimp on coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dutchman's Mistakes | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...perplexed Parisian newshawks Gertrude Stein explained a libretto she has just completed for her second opera,* a Steinish version of Faust: Faust "sells his soul over and over again hoping to go to hell. He kills his boy and dog to really sin and go to hell and is turned into a young man. But Marguerite denies he is Faust and because he cannot prove it he finally just fades away. Yes, it is rather amusing." From one of the Stein songs: "The devil what the devil do I care if the devil is there. . . . And you wanted my soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Jean Françaix: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Paris Philharmonic, Nadia Boulanger conducting, with the composer at the piano; Victor: 4 sides). One of the friskiest foals in the Parisian paddock. 26-year-old Composer Françaix is as yet practically unknown to U. S. listeners. His neat, chattering concerto is the most skilful bit of musical window-dressing that has been exported from Paris in a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: November Records: November Records | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...Gauguin's prints, believes that as Gauguin's rich paintings resemble tapestry, his woodcuts resemble murals. To prove it he made a photographic enlargement of Gauguin's biggest woodcut, dramatized his thesis that Gauguin was a natural muralist who could not find, either in stuffy Parisian houses or South Sea huts, walls to work upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gauguin Prints | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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