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Grand Lac de l'Epaule. They ate the proudest concoctions of three chefs, a head baker and a head pastry cook...
...small things, but she has watched too many big minds grapple with too many big problems. She has grown up to be intelligent without thick lenses, mature without even half trying. She seldom goes to London's gaunt nightclubs, does not smoke, but loves to dance. Her newest, proudest possession: a pair of gold earrings cut like wheat tops and curled along the edge of her ears from top to bottom. She bought them herself...
...years Chicago's State Street Council has been among the world's proudest trade associations. Its members are the great midwestern merchants (Marshall Field, Carson Pirie Scott, The Fair, etc.) that line the upper part of Chicago's No. 1 shopping thoroughfare. But south of Van Buren Street, lower boundary of the "L" loop, there is an equally famous part of State Street: a scabrous collection of saloons, shooting galleries, hock shops, flea markets, peep shows, "red hot" burlesques and flophouses ("clean quiet comfort for 30?"), smack in the middle of Chicago's notorious First Ward...
...first time since autumn 1939, advertising pages of U.S. magazines bloomed last week with the blue, white & red flag of France above a famed name-French Line. Once one of the proudest of all shippers, employing 50,000, linking a hundred ports, beloved by Americans for its luxury liners and fabulous food, the 89-year-old line and her famed Pier 57 were household names...
...pack trains and took to the straggling, slippery trails, where the Chinese were dug in for the main battle. And there, for the first time, the Japanese met stiff resistance. Against crack Chinese units strung out south along a 50-mile front they threw their full strength. But their proudest advance, from Changyang over the mountains to Tuchenwan, netted them only 15 miles...