Word: voila
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Said a French soldier: "Up there it is cold and everyone is tired. Voila! One sees Mile. Pepita. She is as cold and as tired as anyone else, but still smiling." Pepita's uniform, like her rank, is unique: she wears tailored, olive green slacks, a white blouse beneath a woolen khaki jacket and a cerise scarf. In her small tent, which was sieved by mortar fragments last October, there is a salvaged dressing table littered with a dozen perfumes, powders and toilet accessories. Hanging from the tent pole is a Paris wardrobe. "For Tokyo," she explains...
...Monsieur Garden, found him in shirtsleeves in a shabby little house. Said the lean old man: "The Tremolin coal trust, c'est moil" Then Gardon led the reporter to his backyard to see the mine fields. "There it is," said Gardon. "I see nothing," replied the puzzled reporter. "Voila, behind the bush...
...small Italian towns, exultant Frenchmen with glittering eyes were rubbing out the memory of June four years ago. Down the dusty, twisting road from the ancient hill village of Esperia, toward Monticelli and the pockmarked Liri Valley, buzzed a jeep with the shield of a general of France. "Voila le grand Charlie!" sweaty Frenchmen shouted to one another, and froze in proud salute...
...Countess to a deferential man who had "the face of a seal and breathed very loudly through his short nose." The old men were very cordial while the seal kissed the Countess' hand with "very moist lips." But as soon as he moved on, Bratianu-beard said: "Voila le gigolo le phis dangereux de Bucharest." All his friends in high Rumanian society knew, said the Old Excellencies, that "he lived on women and blackmail" and "worked for Moruzov's Secret Police." Nearly everybody in the Athene Palace worked for Moruzov, they said, from waiters and washroom attendants...
...feature of tonight's concert will be the performance of the "Dance of the Seven Voila" from Richard Strauss's "Salome," and also the Finale of this opera, which is receiving its premiere in Boston...