Word: parisians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old O'Brady is almost a Parisian. She arrived in Paris ten years ago, and modified her name because, she said, the "Mc" was hard for Frenchmen to pronounce. She combed the Seine bookstalls for 19th Century prints, and painted neat, nicely detailed oils that looked rather 19th Century. When the Nazis put her in a concentration camp, she turned to drawing her fellow prisoners, and learned delicate portraiture in line...
...Parisian necklines, having gone about as far south as they could go, stayed there; a few new afternoon-dress necklines opened perilously as far down as the waistline. Explained one fashion expert: "A woman has to be naked somewhere. If you cover her at the bottom, you must uncover...
Died. Caroline Lacroix, Baroness de Vaughan, seventyish, second wife (morganatic) and widow of Belgium's King Leopold II; in Cambo-les-Bains, France. Young daughter of a Parisian concierge, she became the mistress of 65-year-old Leopold, bore him two sons in nine years, wed him in 1909, four days before his death...
...story was different. All winter long, while arctic gusts set the U.S. ashivering, strong west winds from the warm Atlantic bathed Europe in welcome balm. In France, where the weather was milder than it had been since 1921, the winter wheat last week was already standing six inches high. Parisian office workers were flocking to eat their lunches in sun-warmed parks, and tulip shoots stood two inches up from the rich, black loam of the Tuileries gardens. Along the Seine the first clochards (hoboes) of the season had taken their places to watch the tugboats pull rows of laden...
Nicole found her thunder when she was only eight. Her father, a Parisian engineer, had hoped she would become a painter and her sister a pianist. For hours, the two little girls struggled wretchedly over their lessons. One day, when their parents were out, they decided to switch. Nicole sat down at the piano and just started to play. She first played in public before she was ten, has been playing ever since...