Word: soir
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spanking new Paris Cinema, with its drunken murals of Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe, with its little attendant in gendarme costume (a la Jack Lemmon) who welcomes all with a sheepish "bon soir," with its rotund manager exuding continental pleasantries in Maurice Chevalier tones as he hustles customers to their upholstered seats, really put me in the mood for Billy Liar...
...Soir...
...inevitable that the dailies, after unsuccessfully trying to distribute on their own, should turn again to Hachette. Soon Hachette was delivering 80% of all newspapers. This virtual monopoly may have encouraged Hachette to get into newspapering on its own. Today it overshadows Paris' afternoon newspaper field, with France-Soir (circ 1,350,000), and Paris-Presse (150,000), Hachette also publishes three Paris weeklies, ranging in size from France-Dimanche's 1,400,000 to Le Nouveau Candide...
...series on nothing more than Menotti's promise of bed and board. They have performed everything from 13th century motets to Korean twelve-tone, are directed by Georgia-born Pianist Charles Wadsworth, a noted lieder accompanist who performed at one of Jackie Kennedy's White House soir...
...France Soir...