Word: passee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Readers who find false beards passe may as well pass up The Dukays, even though the publishers are boosting it as their "major book for the spring of 1949," and Author Lajos Zilahy as "Hungary's foremost novelist." The Dukays was a Hungarian bestseller in 1947; probably nothing but...
The parade halted. Leaders indignantly shouted back to their followers, "Les flics ne veulent pas qu'on passe!" (The cops won't let us pass.) The answer was a sullen rumble.
At this point Colonel Dymshitz began to sweat. But the worst was yet to come. Lasky pitied the writers of the Soviet Union: "We know how soul-crushing it is to work and write when behind us stands a political censor and behind him stands the police. Think of how...
When an almost oppressively sophisticated writer turns out so highfalutin a play, there may well be method, even if there is no meaning, in his claptrap. Very possibly Cocteau meant to polish up a lot of passe heroics into a rococo extravaganza that would be lively theater to boot. And...
His wife's 20-franc (40^) weekly will be no child of Marie-Claire. Said Mme. Lazareff: "Something has happened in between. The youth in France are much less fluffy. The chichi is passe. . . ."