Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lush with furs and brilliant with jewels; fashion models, dressed carefully to provoke envy in the thousands who came in merely their best clothes (see p. 63). It was all very much like the race meet at Auteuil, in the suburbs of Paris, in the spring of 1940, when Parisian couturiers worried about the proper cut and color for gas-mask containers. Shut Out whipped Alsab in the famed Belmont Stakes, and Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews, Commandant of the entire Eastern Sea Frontier, came graciously to the microphone to make a neat little speech, in which he promised that...
...impulsive and sensitive student at a middle class girls' school in Burgundy. Too much of an individualist to be popular with her classmates, she is ignored by her father, who lives in his chateau with no other purpose than the breeding of snails. Her only friend is a charming Parisian waif, Mouloud, whom her father picked up in the city one day and brought back with...
...adjective grew from the hotel's reputation. Recently, when Mme. Ritz was offered favors if she would keep open house for visiting Nazis, her answer was to confine Germans to one half, Parisians to the other. The Ritz Bar was on the Parisian side...
Joan is concerned with the present fortunes of Occupied France. Hero Henreid is a Free French R.A.F. pilot shot down near Paris with his bomber crew; Heroine Morgan is a Parisian barmaid who, like a latter-day St. Joan, sacrifices herself that the R.A.F.ers may escape to England...
Lanny Budd, a sort of contemporary Renaissance Prince, is half-symbol, half-character. Pinkish, amiable, charming, and vaguely uneasy about his softness, he plays prince consort to his rich bride Irma, who in turn plays salonnière in a million-franc-per-year Parisian palace, and who is a comic-strip X-ray of heiress mentality...