Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show was put on by the enterprising Guild of British Creative Designers, an association of twelve wholesale gown manufacturers, which has its eye on postwar trade, would like to grab some Parisian prestige. But for the uniformed and utility-clothed British girl the show was a frustration. The Board of Trade does not yet permit, for domestic use, such luxury items as were shown last week. All 48 of the models displayed were earmarked: Down Under-for export to Australia...
...idea that he was contributing to a new esthetic movement in Europe. The pottery and ornaments which the Japanese began to export after Perry's visit were often wrapped in the Japanese equivalent of old newspapers-sheets of popular prints engraved by native artists. Within a few years, Parisian poets and painters were ransacking Japanese packing cases as though the crumpled prints inside were an accidental answer to an occidental prayer. For the prints were a pat expression of a slogan that was sweeping France: art pour l'art-art for art's sake...
...adventurous and inventive spirit which had characterized French, or more exactly Parisian painting . . . hardly a trace remains. All the work produced during the Occupation (except Picasso's . . .) told of a passive, bewildered acceptance of exhausted motives...
Frenchmen grieved and worried. A Parisian flower-vendor propped a black headline, Roosevelt est mort, against his cart of bouquets - "for the death of a savior," he said. A bank clerk cried: "La voix de l'Amérique est diminuée de moitié - America's voice is reduced by half!" Hundreds signed the Embassy register. Hundreds sent cards of regret to Americans whom they had never known. Frenchmen came up to Americans in the streets, shook hands, and said: "We have lost our best friend. . . . What will happen...
...gaunt Parisian, gone five years, hurried unannounced to his home. He was too spent to climb the five flights to his door, so the janitor went up to tell his wife the good news. When she came down, her husband lay dead of a heart attack...