Word: premis
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...pledge the following placard: Not to be outdone, the Cornish growers of broccoli, succulent vegetable, adopted last week a "National Mark" for their produce bearing a map of England exactly like that on the Daily Mail egg placards. For export to France the broccoli is labeled Choux-Fleurs, Premiére Qualitó, while Germans will receive Blumenkohl, Prima Qualit...
...Paris première of Poor Richard will be on the night of March 22, 1929, not an anniversary of anything but, roughly speaking, the Sesquicentennial of B. Franklin's arrival in Paris. The play, by Playwright Louis Evan Shipman of Manhattan will be the first by a modern U.S. author ever presented...
...première of the film, Street Angel, were invited Rome's most scintillant critics, most potent cinema tycoons. When an unsalubrious and perhaps unrecognizable Naples flickered before their eyes, they whistled and hissed in protest. One critic shouted "Only the fact that we are guests prevents this theatre from being inundated under a Niagara of violent indignation." The theatre therefore was saved but the Board of Censors was doomed a few hours hence...
...Paris the new Orchestre Symphonique gave Arthur Honegger's Rugby a successful première. In the U. S., Composer Honegger is famed for his Pacific 231 through which he sniffs and snorts to resemble a giant locomotive. His Rugby, long heralded, is a sound picture of a football match in which smart, broken rhythms tell the struggle of the players, the excitement of the crowd...
...golden slippers. Even customs officers looked their awe. Such colors, such stuffs were rare. Such charm was rare too, but at the moment no commensurate assurance swelled the breast of the sparkling creature. To be sure she was La Argentina, the Spanish dancer* who as a child was première danseuse classique at the Royal Opera in Madrid, as a mature artist the rage of Berlin, of Paris. But the U. S. was different. Her art was subtle, its lines tickling, fine. The U. S. might not understand...