palmy+days
91Charlotte Greenwood — Avec Buster Keaton, dans Buster se marie (1931) Données clés …
92Thomas, Augustus — (1857 1934) St. Louis born Augustus Thomas worked as a railroad man and journalist, and he considered a law career before he adapted Frances Hodgson Burnett s novel Editha s Burglar as a play for a local theatre. Revised in collaboration with… …
93Tobin, Genevieve — (1899 1995) Born in New York, Genevieve Tobin debuted in 1912 in a revival of Disraeli, and proved to be a winsome ingénue in Oh, Look! (1918), Palmy Days (1919), Little Old New York (1920), Polly Preferred (1923), The Youngest (1924), Dear… …
94prosperity — I noun abundance, achievement, affluence, blessings, boom, booming economy, comfort, comfortable circumstances, ease, expansion, felicity, fortunate condition, full purse, good fortune, good luck, good times, heyday, luck, luxury, opulence, palmy …
95Chanel: Am Anfang war der Hut — Kindheit und Jugend Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel wurde am 19. August 1883 in Saumur (Maine et Loire) als zweites Kind des ledigen Markthändlerpaares Albert Chanel und Eugenie Jeanne Devolle geboren. Die Eltern heirateten zwar am 17. November 1884 …
96PERSEPOLIS — the ancient capital of Persia, represented now by its ruins, which stand 25 m. from the NW. shores of Lake Niris, on the banks of the Murghab River, though in its palmy days it was described as the Glory of the East …
97VENICE — a city of Italy, in a province of the same name, at the head of the Adriatic, in a shallow lagoon dotted with some eighty islets, and built on piles partly of wood and partly of stone, the streets of which are canals traversed by gondolas and… …
98heyday — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. prime, height, peak, zenith; glory, full bloom, top of one s form; halcyon, golden, or palmy days; golden age, youth. See goodness. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. adolescence, bloom, prime of life; see youth …
99Ahoms — A Sino Tibetan hill tribe, possibly an offshoot of the great Tai or Shan race, that spread from what is now Thailand and Myanmar. After settling in the Brahmputra valley, many of them married women from the local Bodo tribes. Most of them… …
100Methye Portage — Also known as Portage La Loche. Named after the methye or loche (Lota maculosa), which has always been abundant in neighbouring waters. This portage was an important point in the palmy days of the fur trade. It leads from the Churchill to the… …
