Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France is shooting for the transatlantic luxury trade with a new twelve-hour, nonstop flight to Paris. Called the "Golden Parisian" the flight will use Lockheed Super Constellations fitted to carry only 32 passengers (instead of 56), cost an extra $25 above the $415 regular first-class fare. Travelers who want even fancier treatment can have a private cabin for one or two ($125 extra...
Misia was not the only one who was impressed with Misia. Before she was 16, she was married to a young Parisian man of affairs, Thadee Natanson, whom she met one evening while out with Alfred Nobel, the dynamite manufacturer, and his American mistress. After blithely spending her dowry of 300,000 francs (then $60,000) on a trousseau, Misia settled in Paris, and while Thadee concerned himself with business, she diverted herself by building homes on the Riviera, helping imprisoned anarchists and bewitching the first of a long succession of assorted geniuses...
...rate statistics, calorie tallies, and record manufacturing figures (probably weighted down with expensive guns) are unmistakable signs of life. Plump children and comparatively merry faces on bus-riders are Brinton's evidence that the people are content. Eccentric, but by no means morbid, paintings still hang in the familiar Parisian galleries and studios, and though many landmarks are gone, Brinton concludes that Europe has changed less in twenty years than America...
...first act goes back to 1822 or 1826 (the date is uncertain), when a French aristocrat with an unlikely name, Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce, and a Parisian scene-painter named Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre developed the professionally workable "daguerreotype." It was so successful that a French cartoon soon complained that half of mankind had become "daguerreocrazed," while the rest was "daguerreomazed."*Everything in sight was caught on the magic plates-Victor Hugo's hand, the moon, the 30th reunion of the Yale class of 1810, President John Quincy Adams (first U.S. President ever photographed...
...house where he lived, Marc continued to pursue the pleasant, unruffled existence of a man at peace with himself and the world. He took fat carp from the neighboring river, lent his money freely to all who seemed needy, entertained his friends with home-cooked meals worthy of a Parisian chef, and sent them home glowing with his fine vintages. Not even the postman was allowed to pass Marc's house on his rounds without sampling its hospitality. Most of Marc's friends tried to ignore his grim joke about suicide, but Marc would not let them...