The debut of this dazzling yet delicate V-shaped necklace by Bulgari may be the ultimate sign that the drug has become not merely acceptably mainstream, but proudly distingué.
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Songs for Distingué Lovers is an album by jazz singer Billie Holiday released in 1957 on Verve Records.Songs for Distingué Lovers, Discogs.com, accessed March 13, 2016 It was originally available in both mono, catalogue number MGV 8257, and stereo, catalog number MGVS 6021. It was recorded at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles from January 3 to January 9, 1957, and produced by Norman Granz.
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A 2 CD re-issue from 1995 combined all of the tracks from this and two other Holiday albums recorded at the same time, Body and Soul and Songs for Distingué Lovers, with two additional bonus tracks taken from the same recording sessions.
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The edge of the medallion bears the inscription "DISTINGUISHED SERVICE" on the left and "SERVICE DISTINGUÉ" on the right. The inscriptions are separated by a spray of laurel leaves at the top and bottom edges. The reverse bears a wreath of maple and laurel leaves around the edge. The center is plain so the recipient's name may be engraved.
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The citation reads: > Il est particulièrement distingué par son courage et son devouement au cours > de l'offensive des Flanders. > (He is particularly distinguished for his courage and dedication during the > Flanders offensive.) In 1921, Alleyn's School honoured Tyson by naming Tyson's House after him. At the school, > he taught (French) with great patience and precision. He was a big man but > very gentle in his ways.
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Louise Bovie, full name Josine Natalie Louise Bovie (1810 - 11 January 1870), was a Belgian writer. She published a novella (un petit roman) called "La Perdrix" (The Partridge) under the pen name Marie Sweerts. She also wrote poetry and short stories, and contributed to the monthly literary journal Revue de belgique, where she was eulogized as having "a distinguished spirit."D'un esprit distingué: Revue de belgique 4 (January 1870), p.
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On September 21, 1925, Tashman married her longtime friend, actor Edmund Lowe. The two became the darlings of Hollywood reporters and were touted in fan magazines as having "the ideal marriage". Tashman was described by reporter Gladys Hall as "the most gleaming, glittering, moderne, hard- surfaced, and distingué woman in all of Hollywood". The couple entertained lavishly at "Lilowe", their Beverly Hills home, and their weekly party invitations were highly sought after.
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Though his father built a stylish house in Paris with a garden that looked onto the bosquets of the Champs-ÉlyséesIt was generally referred to as the Hôtel Champs-Élysées. (Desnoiresterres 1877:20). and kept a great table,"Grimod de la Reynière faisait la meilleure chère de tout Paris. 'Sa maison' dit Grimm 'est l'auberge le plus distingué des hommes de qualité'" (Desnoiresterres 1877:22); the chef de cuisine was Mérillon (idem, p 25).
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En 2901 Mme la baronne de > Rothschild lue fil un don pareil. > Le comité directeur de la Hachemia est composé de personnalités marquantes > de Caire. M. Vita Palacci, le distingué chef de l'importante maison du > commerce Palacci fils, Haim et Cie, qui est bien connue en Egypte et au > Soudain, en est le president actif et dévoué. Parmi ses collaborateurs, > citons de Dr. Beneroya, le directeur du journal "La Vara"; M. Talvi, > ingénieur au ministère des Travaux publies, etc.
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Songs for Distingué Lovers was reissued by Verve Records on October 28, 1997, as part of its Master Edition series, remastering using 20-bit technology with six bonus tracks.1997 Verve Master Edition CD, Discogs.com, accessed March 13, 2016 The extra tracks were all recorded at the same sessions, and taken from other Holiday albums of the late 1950s on Verve. "I Wished on the Moon" and "Love Is Here to Stay" were from MGV 8329, All or Nothing At All, and the other four from MGV 8197, Body and Soul.
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Billy Strayhorn The lyric describes the author's weariness of the night life after a failed romance, wasting time with "jazz and cocktails" at "come-what-may places" and in the company of girls with "sad and sullen gray faces/with distingué traces". Strayhorn was a teenager when he wrote most of the song, which was to become his signature composition (along with "Take the 'A' Train"). The song was written in the key of D-flat major. The melody is over relatively complex chord changes, compared with many jazz standards, with chromatic movement and modulations that evoke a dreamlike state and the dissolute spirit characteristic of the so-called lush life.
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In 1849 he became music teacher in the English Boarding School in Bruges. In 1850 he married an Englishwoman, moving to Brussels again, where he was active as a piano teacher. Concurrently he undertook several concert journeys abroad as a piano virtuoso and composer for his instrument. He especially reaped a great success during a tour in Germany with the famous cellist Servais. Pougin called him "un-artiste extrêmement distingué, aussi excellent professeur qu’habile exécutant". Grégoir's necrology in the Dutch periodical Caecilia mentions that he didn't get a position at the Brussels Conservatory but that in 1874 he was indeed appointed to ‘Professeur d’accompagnement’ of the ‘Institut musical’ founded in Brussels by the Dutch king William III.
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