Word: vied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City may be, perhaps, trying to create a reputation for naughtiness which will vie, in attracting visitors, with Paris in summer. At any rate another of those periodic dust clouds about immoral plays has ascended on the zephyrs of Manhattan where jaded country business men, both far and near, may see it. Apparently there has been no official statement of which plays are naughty and whether they are really naughty. In spite of this, the city is filled with a mighty hustle and hurly-burly of reformers, and a general movement of those who might be responsible...
Perhaps on both points M. Perrin has not looked deeply enough into the American character. Paris has, whether rightly or wrongly, through stage quips and La Vie. Parisienne, gained a world-wide reputation for naughtiness. This is no great wonder for in the summer, when emigration from the United States is at its peak, all good Parisians go to their watering places leaving Paris no longer French but almost American. The French who remain speak English, play up to the visitors, and give them at least half their money's worth. With such a reputation Paris naturally becomes a lode...
Every year a new Maid of Orleans is elected from les damoiselles de la rive gauche, and she is the figurehead of the Saint Germain Fair. About her gather the multitudes of Paris, and in the Quartier latin hoary professors vie with cherub-faced students to do the " lily-white damsel" honor. Then the procession begins and Jeanne d'Arc is followed by her army, garbed in the costumes of their ancestors, who march with firm intent " to boot the English out of France...
Forty-five years ago Anna Katherine Green published The Leavenworth Case. That mystery story still sells. In 1923 she publishes The Step on the Stair in which love and romance vie for place with crime and mystery. Critics have said that this novel, written when she has passed her seventy-fifth birthday is one of her best, that it returns to the manner and method of The Leavenworth Case, was better than The Filigree Ball or The House of the Whispering Pines. At any rate, soon after publication, it was found on the best-seller lists...
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, November 17.--The University Debating Society, which contains quite three quarters of the undergraduates, has been deeply divided over the question as to whether the Society's Reading Rooms should take in "La Vie Parisienne" or not. Highly moral arguments were produced on one side. It would be bad for Cambridge morals, it would ruin the friendly feeling which one ought to feel for France if so improper a French paper were taken in. People would get from it quite a wrong impression of French character. The supporters of "La Vie" maintained that the paper was quite harmless...