Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soundscriber with which qualified students may record their pronunciation in any language they choose is available, as well as a group of records from which the beginner can learn to imitate the gay Parisian tongue in the original...
...Creamer. When Johnny Desmond was a sergeant in France, he wowed the G.I.s and Parisian girls with his big baritone, for $72 a month (TIME, March 12, 1945). The day after he turned in his uniform, in November 1945, Johnny started singing on NBC's Teentimers show for $500 a week. Now he makes $75,000 a year. Although many of his ex-G.I. fans are still loyal to "The Creamer" (he has a "creamy" voice), Johnny has not yet overwhelmed the folks at home...
...will, they were ably abetted by Paris. There the brasshats of fashion, indifferent as always to the wishes or even the shapes of their subjects, panted to regain the attention, if not the prestige, which they had lost during the war. Almost before anyone could say haute couture, such Parisian newcomers as Christian Dior were making a great to-do about squeezing waists into wasp lines and padding out hips-and the revolution...
...George Schlee) was almost as conservative as Sophie. Her hems were down slightly and her décolletage was down a lot. Said Valentina: "The bozoom ees half-exposed, jost enoff to cover the-you know." Many a small-fry designer was trying so desperately to get everything Parisian into one dress that some models looked like an anthology of style...
...Philosophy Is Born. Some light is shed on the new philosophy by the way in which Sébille, anxious to clamber on to the lurching bandwagon of postwar Parisian culture, hit upon its name. One day Sébille met a charming girl in an existentialist bar. Said he: "After dinner I proposed to her that we get to know each other more intimately. She replied with a disarming smile: 'Of course. I'm an intimatist.' The name of my philosophy was found...