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Word: cocos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Marraine to 200 French aviators is Mme Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, who now patriotically wears nothing but the French national colors - red, white & blue - but less patriotically has closed her famed Paris style shop. "I don't believe in sending just anything to my aviators!" cried Coco last week, explaining that she sends them only the finest English pullovers, stockings and gloves, each .neatly stamped in the corner "Chanel." Exactly opposite in type to Coco is that dignified great lady of the haute couture, Mme Jeanne Lanvin, first woman of her calling ever made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Women At Work | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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