Word: parisiens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassador Jusserand called at the White House accompanied by Senator Paul Dupuy of France (owner of Le Petit Parisien and close friend of Premier Poincaré) for an informal discussion of Franco-American relations. Afterwards, M. Jusserand was asked by reporters what M. Dupuy had had to say. The Ambassador, who like the French Senator is a newspaper man, replied with a French proverb: "Les loups ne se mangent pas entre eux" (literally, "The wolves do not eat themselves among one another...
...Petit Parisien (1,800,000 daily circulation, nearly three times greater than any American newspaper) is the most widely read journal in France. It is printed in 15 separate editions. The first edition comes off the press at 5.30 a. m. of the day before and is shot to the provinces furthest North. The last edition leaves the machines at 6 a. m. for the grand boulevards...
...town Le Petit Parisien deals with 18,000 news agents. Agents are credited with copies which are returned unsold. At Clichy (suburb of Paris) a special service checks these returns, the cost of this service being barely covered by the cash derived from the sale of the returns as waste paper...
After this Parisien society leave la mile de la lumiere for the fashionable plages of Europe...
Chemistry is the subject which Mr. Edison has used in his successful experiments with the pedagogic film. But it remains to be shown whether the irregularities of the French verb can be demonstrated by the silent portrayal of a Parisien in the act of verbal gesticulation...