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Word: soir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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They shouted, cheered, and-a rare event in France-whistled. Lena could do no wrong: she even got away with a song in schoolgirl French. After the show, admirers followed her to her dressing room. Next day France Soir splashed a three-column picture of her on Page One, and captioned it: "A triumph."* Would she stay on in France, as Josephine Baker had? Said Lena: "Hell no! I got a family in Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lena in Paris | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Another Russian runaway was Georgian-born Lieut. General Gulishvili. Chief intelligence officer in the Soviet zone of Austria, Gulishvili skipped from Vienna in August and stopped off in Paris. Last week, when he was safely en route to South America, France-Soir published his answers to some pertinent questions. Most pertinent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Hey! Wait for Me! | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...Devil's Envoys (Paulvé; Superfilm), which is based on the medieval romance Les Visiteurs du Soir, is a French film about a minstrel (Alain Cuny) and his mistress (Arletty) who travels disguised as his brother. One evening they turn up among the entertainers at a small French chateau. These unusually talented musicians are capable of magic, as well as music; they are emissaries of the Devil (Jules Berry). Their business in the world is to seduce immortal souls through the transient flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 29, 1947 | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Inside Job. The Paris press, suddenly waking up to what France-Soir called "the most extraordinary enigma in criminal history," screamed MURDER. As a horde of reporters and cameramen built the case into a sensational story, a stocky, methodical detective named Edmond Bascou, one of the Sûreté Nationale's best, took over the investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Puzzle of the 17 Patients | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...statement that Paris-Soir Editor Lazareff "left Paris when the Germans arrived; his collaborator, Jean Prouvost, stayed on and worked under the Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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