Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Renouncing her foreign title, Princess Natalie Paley, daughter of the late Grand Duke Paul of Russia, ex-wife of Parisian Couturier Lucien Lelong, wife of Noel Coward's business manager, John Chapman Wilson, took out first papers for U. S. citizenship. White-haired, U. S.-born Lady Ribblesdale, 70, ex-wife of Colonel John Jacob Astor, mother of Vincent Astor, grande dame of international society, renounced her title, once more became a citizen of her native...
...homeless royalty hurried across the Franco-Spanish border before the Nazi invader. Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg and members of her family were among early arrivals, followed by Her Highness the Maharanee of Kapurthala. Already an exile, Polish Pianist Stanislao Nielziesld sought new refuge in Spain, as did famed Parisian Jeweler Pierre C. Cartier. Adrien Thierry, French Ambassador to Argentina, was more fortunate than French Leftist leaders who were reported to have found both Spanish and Swiss borders closed to them. (But an Italian broadcast said onetime French Socialist Premier Leon Blum and several French deputies had entered Switzerland...
Last week the Brothers Warner released their biggest picture of 1940 with loud protestation that it would rival Gone With the Wind. It picturized Rachel Field's best-selling ventilation of certain Parisian scandals concerning her great-aunt by marriage. This unhappy tale, long locked away among the respectable annals of the New England Field family, was soon devoured by avid U. S. novel readers to the number...
...refugees), she lacked farm hands, was far behind both in plowing and sowing. England could always import hers so long as she had the $1,610,000,000 to meet the annual bill. Last week the Londoner still had his bacon & eggs, the Parisian his pain beune. But Englishmen were at last beginning to see that Master-Farmer David Lloyd George was right: they must plow their pasturage and "dig for victory." Seeking also to cut home consumption not only of food but of nonessential articles, the Board of Trade restricted by two-thirds the supply of 600 such items...
...competing cars was powered with more than eight cylinders, that this year's mechanical emphasis was on new methods of supercharging, that six foreign cars were entered, and, for the first time in a decade, two foreign drivers: South American Champion Raul Riganti and Parisian Rene LeBegue, on leave from the French Army...