Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week's guests was Marie Dubas, a top Parisian torchsinger whose hair, like that of many Frenchwomen, has turned red as she has approached middle age. She took off with a harrowing recitation of Kipling's My Son, then did three songs. The best: Mon Coco, Mon Coquin du Coin du Quai (My Sweetie, My Little Rascal from the Corner of the Wharf...
...something more was missing than Gérard, who had retired to a sumptuous château near Biarritz which he had bought with tips. The world had changed; even Paris had changed. And one must be so careful these days; Maxim's manager, uncertain of volatile Parisian reactions, had drawn tight the forbidding metal blinds of the war years. Over the threshold of pleasure, a single electric bulb, flickering with Paris' spastic electric current, lighted strayed revelers through the night...
Died. The Marquis Jules Philippe Felix Albert de Dion, 90, former "kingpin dude" of Parisian society who forsook boulevard gaieties in the '90s to become a pioneer automobile manufacturer, founder of the famed Automobile Club of France; in Paris...
Pierre Bonnard's latter-day success is galling to some Parisian moderns, who think he is an old fogy. He has never followed the fads of Parisian painting, never gone surrealist or cubist, never painted a face with one eye or three. Many of Bonnard's pictures fall into a kind of sentimental fuzziness that reminds people of Renoir...
Last week all Parisian newspapers were permitted to increase to four pages, and to double their price (to about three cents). For some of the postwar hopefuls, born of adversity, this meant the biggest crisis of all: they had survived the worst days of short newsprint when expenses were low and they did not need large (or too competent) staffs. Now the competition would be stiffer. Gossip was that at least six of the dailies would be lucky to survive the coming year...