Word: parisians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among some Parisian café thinkers, who seem to believe that Chicago is run by Al Capone and that New Yorkers live in nightclubs, McCoy has been honored as the peer of Hemingway and Faulkner. The trash he writes is closer to the literature of men's-room walls...
Three years ago Prime Minister King Hired Jacques Greber, Parisian cityplanner, to draw up blueprints for a capital that Canadians could be proud of. Last week, before a Senate Committee, the white-mustached, 65-year-old Frenchman gave a few hints of what Ottawa could look like...
...high-toned Parisian auctioneer refused, under the prevailing code of professional ethics, to reveal names of the hair-traders...
...clean up that mess-might have convinced the Italians that the U.S. was a friend worth having. People who live in threatened nations (and who doesn't?) need more than food; they need to have some assurance that the U.S. intends to win the peace. Paul Verdon, a Parisian restaurant keeper, spoke for millions when he read the Czech news last week: "Either this is the American century or the Soviet century," he said. "But I would certainly like to know which." An opportunist's view? Yes, Verdon would like the opportunity to go on living...
...wire-cluttered and slide-rule-dominated anterooms of Lyman Laboratory have recently arisen the slightly incongruous Parisian the slightly incongruous Parisian intonations of Philippe E. Le Corbeiller, who periodically puts aside his parallel resistances and variable condensers to give the nation his ideas on life in the twenty-five and thirtieth centuries...