Word: plein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amsterdam's gaudy Rembrandt-plein, a money dealer known as "Kees de Dollarkoning" (Kees the Dollar King) had resorted to hawking leather wallets as a sideline. He used to get six guilders to the dollar, now offers to buy them...
...sweater. After her first song there was a sepulchral silence. "A thousand thoughts went through my mind," she says. "Did my miserable appearance make them feel ashamed?" Then the hall broke into a long thunder of applause. Maurice Chevalier rose to his feet and cried: "Elle en a plein le ventre, la môme" ("The kid's got plenty of stuff...
...theatres reopened, papers came out (under German "guidance") cafés did good business in the spring sunshine. Along Amsterdam's quays the familiar flower barges once more set out jonquils, tulips, forget-me-nots, pansies for sale. At The Hague, where bombs had dropped on the Government Plein (square), swarms of bicycles returned to the pavements...