Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Midinette (from dinette: a light meal) was originally a generic term for Parisian shopgirls. Over the years, however, its use has become more & more restricted to the seamstresses...
Every August, Parisian haute couture stages a style show dedicated to extolling the wares of Schiaparelli, Fath and Dior, and extracting the dollars of Saks, Filene's and Neiman-Marcus. This year, however, the show almost flopped before it started...
...have approved of her ebullient great-great-granddaughter's high kicks-but then Margaret has always shown herself to be more a child of Victoria's son Edward VII, an habitue of Maxim's in the days when Offenbach's music set the pace for Parisian gaiety. As Mademoiselle Fifi, Princess Margaret and seven of her friends turned the embassy party into a show that would have delighted Edward's eye if not his sense of royal decorum...
...Parisian rip who bawls out this ditty, 70-year-old stage & screen Actress Ethel Grimes does a vigorous job that comes nearest to giving the show the comedy it badly needs. The young people in the cast-Mary McCarty, Allyn McLerie, Eddie Albert-are all pleasant enough, but their roles are definitely on the stale side. What does most to relieve the sameness and tameness of Miss Liberty are Jerome Robbins' gay, rowdy dances. They are much the best thing in the show...
...Egyptologists agreed, and turned up at 3 o'clock of the appointed morning just as the refugees from Paris' nightclubs met the first milkman in the streets. The two scholars were equipped with a pink parasol and a walkie-talkie. At the foot of the obelisk, Parisian firemen stood ready with a hook & ladder. The younger of the pair, Mario Fabre, climbed to the top of the monolith; the other, François Guinet-Chaplain, established himself at its base. The hours went by. A crowd began to gather. At 10 o'clock the crowd was thick...