Word: parlez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time they saw Paris. The baby spotlights focused down on a singer whose face was familiar. It looked a little older now, and the figure-despite the best efforts of Parisian couturiers-was perceptibly heavier. But when Lucienne Boyer began a husky-voiced singing of her old theme song, Parlez-moi &'Amour, it was almost like old times...
...felt it. Radio dance orchestras announced as many tunes as possible by French titles (Parlez Moi d'Amour). Manhattan's Hildegarde, a songstress who worked in Paris cafes in the '303 went on plugging the sentimental melody which she had helped to make No. 1 on the Hit Parade: I'll Be Seeing You (in "all the old familiar places" of Paris, the lyrics imply). Milliner Lilli Dache (whose newest creation is a hat composed of a single pink garter) and Dressmaker Hattie Carnegie announced they would take the first possible boat to Paris...
...their infantry-trained commanding officer, Colonel Eugene R. Householder, were Roll Out The Barrel, When The War Is Over, Around Her Neck (she wore a yellow ribbon), Oh, My Feet Hurt, I've Been Working On the Railroad, The Moron Song, How Dry I Am and Hinky-dinky, Parlez-Vous...
Inventor Crane, now a financial reporter for the New York Times, learned Japanese in Tokyo, where he was financial editor of the Japan Advertiser, newspaper correspondent and broadcaster. He made two best-selling phonograph records-Japanese versions of Drunk Last Night and Hinkey, Dinkey, Parlez Vous...