Word: quartiere
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...George Gershwin of France's Second Empire was mutton-chop-whiskered Jacques Offenbach. Stuffy politicians, high-toned artists, bombastic literati winced at his satirical songs. All Paris, from the Empress Eugénie to the trollops of the Quartier Latin gobbled up his tunes as fast as they came. He wrote nearly 100 operettas, which drew delighted applause in every pleasure-loving city from St. Petersburg to New Orleans...
...started last autumn when Chicago's architects gave a Fête Charrette for unemployed architects at the Drake Hotel (TIME, Oct. 10). They rigged up a Quartier Latin of wall board and in one of the concessions they established a life class model, better looking than most, who supplied an eyeful to non-professional guests at $1 a head. The venture was such a success that famed John Wellborn Root and other architects got Merchant George Lytton and others to put up a guarantee fund with which to build the $250,000 Streets of Paris on the World...
...demonstration at Joseph Zelli's justly celebrated Montmartre night club. Lieutenant Noville, rough, ready and with gay French blood in him was perfectly at home. Blond, blocky Bernt Balchen did not come into his own until his fellow Scandinavians held a special Viking evening for him in the Quartier Latin. Newsgatherers made life hard for Hero Chamberlin by treating Hero Levine, politely yet distinctly, as a large black fly in the ointment. Mr. Levine was a civilian and owed his place in the sun to being a shrewd, adventurous moneybags. His omnipresence in a company of aeronauts was grotesque...
...Paris, in the Quartier Latin, one Juliana Hastre, young Argentine singer, was gowning for dinner when a messenger delivered to her an egg of prehistoric proportions, an Easter token from her friend Mlle. Van Hong Lu in India. Taking the present with her to the evening's revel at another friend's house, Mile. Hastre exhibited its glossy chocolate surface and sugary frosting, caused mouths to water at the thought of sweet liqueurs or sugary stuffing within, caused shrieks of horror when, cracking the shell, she released half a dozen scabrous tropical cockroaches and a vicious, adult scorpion, which immediately...
...ministerial decree, the boundaries of Paris were extended to make room for a new Quartier, that of Auteuil, which includes the whole of the Bois de Boulogne and the two race courses, Auteuil and Longchamps. The Bois was virtually owned by Paris for many years, but technically it belonged to the Commune of Boulogne...