Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...storekeeper from Connecticut who borrowed $1,000 from his mill-owner father, and with a friend set up a fine stationery and pottery shop on lower Broadway. Though the partners took in only $4.98 in the first three days, sales picked up when they started importing Dresden porcelain and Parisian jewelry. Then, with political upheavals in France, diamond prices tumbled 50% in Europe, and Tiffany's bought all it could, including Marie Antoinette's diamond belt and $100,000 worth of jewels owned by Hungary's Prince Esterh...
...Club, tuned up at last to the proper pitch for the Wimbledon championship. He had wasted no time getting to the final round, blasting his way past such dangerous competitors as last year's champ, Czechoslovakia's aging (33) Expatriate Jaroslav Drobny, and the U.S.'s Parisian Playboy Budge Patty. Across the net stood Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, an unseeded surprise who had knocked over Ken Rosewall and Italy's Nicolo Pietrangeli to get to the finals...
...Parisian, however, the bums of Paris are no proper bums at all, but merely aggravated psychological cases eager for reclamation. After a painstaking study for a doctorate at the Sorbonne, Psychologist Alexandre Vexliard reported in a thesis that some 50% of the Paris clochards are not drinking men. that many of them do useful and vital work at the city's markets and that most of them are "redeemable" to society. The bums of Paris reacted with outraged pride to these black charges...
...said the woman, "but we don't like washing. When it gets too cold here, my husband insults a gendarme and he takes us to the police station for the night. But that's all right -they don't make you wash." A famed Parisian clochard is white-bearded "Père Noël," 63-year-old Andre Guillemin. a former schoolmaster who took to drink and vagabondage after a marital breakup. Unlike many of his fellows, Guillemin varies the day's ragpicking and garbage-stealing routine with occasional browsing at the Seine bookstalls...
...patent leather pumps, found a congenial subject in Hamlet. Honoré Daumier brought his genius for social satire to a masterpiece in the same genre: Don Quixote. And Edouard Manet made a lithograph after Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven that would have delighted would-be-Parisian Poe's anxious heart...