Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wealth and charm made his Parisian table a favorite of two continents. Bullitt thought nothing of throwing a party for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (490 bottles of choice champagne), or embellishing his vast Moscow house with cockerels and baby bears borrowed from the zoo. As the first U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Bullitt was the darling of Moscow, until the mutual love affair turned to mutual coolness. He made a decorative but somewhat indiscreet U.S. Ambassador to France...
...LeCorbeiller is Parisian horn; his bright neckties are a reminder of the colorful gaiety of the old left bank. He however, an adopted Cambridgian Sipco he has lived here longer than in other city...
Spaniards with money and Falangist affiliations ate well in Madrid. Their women sported silver-fox furs and Parisian hats. Other Spaniards sullenly starved...
...Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, French industrialist who helped to prepare the way for the U.S. landings, once had interests in the Fascist-edited Parisian newspaper Le Jour. The Fighting French denounce him as a onetime member of the Cagoulards, an extreme rightist society which is still potent in North Africa...
...their way through the formal shadow of the Louvre, crept by the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, skirted the soft Bois de Boulogne, finally relinquished the monuments of men for those of nature as the steamer saluted the shores of La Grande Jatte, the island where bustled Parisian Mesdames once gathered for gaiety on sun-drenched meadows...