Word: rigueur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Duclos finished to thunderous applause. The audience sang the Marseillaise instead of the Internationale (which is de rigueur at more conventional Communist meetings). Then the petits bourgeois filed out in orderly fashion. At the door, they received leaflets urging them to join the Communist Party. The Reds tried to tell them that they had nothing to lose but their taxes; most French bourgeois knew that they had nothing to win but their chains...
...know is that someone came up on me from the rear. . . . Hands and lips on my shoulders! And then Joey popped him one. . . . These people who think they own you because you're a public figure! . . . Never in all my years! It's just not de rigueur...
...grave little girls, in long frocks and wide sashes, and her good little boys, in pork pie hats, were painted on dinner sets, turned into salt & pepper shakers; oil lamps were embossed with Greenaway designs; valentines like those from Greenaway's Quiver of Love were de rigueur for little lovers. Samples of these were on display in the Chicago Public Library...