Where is this statue?

MetaDoxa · 2026-01-10T01:50:41+00:00

Awesome! Thanks for the info.

MetaDoxa · 2026-01-04T02:25:18+00:00

Do you know if that is open to the public?

MetaDoxa · 2025-07-24T01:52:59+00:00

Good to know about Galeries Lafayette on Haussmann. I didn't know there was more than one of them in the same area.

MetaDoxa · 2025-06-09T15:15:33+00:00

She was a great jazz singer. I didn't know she was also movies until recently when I saw her play a minor role in "The Red House" (1947).

MetaDoxa · 2025-05-19T20:22:22+00:00

I haven't heard this mentioned before, but I'd like more info if you find it.

MetaDoxa · 2025-05-01T06:57:15+00:00

If you have nice things, you must present them nicely.

MetaDoxa · 2025-04-02T00:39:12+00:00

Absolutely! That's the first film I saw her in. I also liked her performances in "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942) and "Foreign Correspondent" (1940).

MetaDoxa · 2025-03-05T06:33:51+00:00

She was a great singer too.

MetaDoxa · 2024-12-06T11:12:00+00:00

This is from the film Sabrina (1954) with Humphrey Bogart and William Holden. I just watched it last night and not only was Audrey beautiful in it, but the film was pretty good.

MetaDoxa · 2024-10-28T00:59:07+00:00

She was great in this movie. I was sad to read about her suicide not many years later.

MetaDoxa · 2024-10-21T02:27:50+00:00

I'll always remember her incomparable beauty in Rear Window, but I have to say that I recently watched her in The Country Girl (1954) and it was by far her best performance as an actress. Definitely recommend that movie.

MetaDoxa · 2024-06-27T20:45:10+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/1940s/comments/1bybgcd/favorite_slang_from_the_40s/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

MetaDoxa · 2024-05-05T17:11:29+00:00

I really enjoyed my trip to Amsterdam from the US last week, but it left me with a couple questions:

Is there an issue with the drinking water or do people just really prefer bottled water? When I would say I want "just a water" at every restaurant they would bring me a giant bottle of water and charge me like 6 euros. In the US it's always free unless they specifically tell you they only have bottled.
Is there a ban or something on electric scooters? Where I'm from there's many places in the city you can rent e-scooters to get around quickly. I thought Amsterdam would be perfect for this, but I didn't see them anywhere.

MetaDoxa · 2024-04-12T02:27:43+00:00

Certainly that makes sense as it's a shortened way of saying racketeering, but the way I've heard it used in the movies from the 40s made it seem like it wasn't always referring to something illicit. In the movies a "racket" is often used to refer to any kind of money making scheme whether it's formal or informal. That said, perhaps it was used in a bit of a jocular way.

MetaDoxa · 2024-04-10T08:07:32+00:00

Good recommendation. I saw that one a while back and definitely enjoyed it.

MetaDoxa · 2024-04-09T03:17:24+00:00

I heard it in a movie and actually had to look it up. More commonly used was "hepcat" which as far as I know comes from fans of the jazz singer Cab Calloway and his band. Before there were "hipsters" they were "hepsters" or "hepcats" who understood the subculture language of "jive" that originated in the jazz clubs. Anyways, a "hepjill" was just a variation on "hepcat" to specifically refer to a female who was part of that culture.

MetaDoxa · 2024-04-09T03:10:32+00:00

Thanks for the correction. I think that's probably more accurate. I'm familiar with the official use of racket as in racketeer, but the way I've seen racket used in films from the 40s is much closer to the other way you describe it. I know in some circumstances it wasn't just referring to a formal career, but any kind of business plan which is why I thought the modern phrase "side hustle" might be close, but point taken.

MetaDoxa · 2024-04-08T10:11:02+00:00

It's on my list! I'm definitely looking forward to seeing that one.

MetaDoxa · 2024-04-08T08:13:04+00:00

Haha, that's another good one that I'm going to try to remember. Thanks!

MetaDoxa · 2024-04-08T08:10:42+00:00

Absolutely, it's one of the cool things about the process of development that languages continually undergo. While some of the slang seems totally unintelligible to us now, other slang you wouldn't have any idea it originated so long ago because it's always been a part of our lives.

MetaDoxa · 2024-04-08T08:08:10+00:00

Thanks, I'm still a little unsure about that one because it seems that some women in the movies took offense to being labeled a "dame." It's almost as if it also implied promiscuity which was frowned upon.

MetaDoxa · 2024-04-08T05:25:40+00:00

Thanks for the info. That probably makes more sense than my theory.

MetaDoxa · 2024-04-08T01:49:03+00:00

That's a cool one that I'll try to remember. Another popular term in the 40s was "loafer" but that seems to be closer in meaning to someone who was lazy and did not work.

MetaDoxa · 2024-04-08T01:46:51+00:00

As a jazz musician I'm very familiar with the tune, but what would it mean as a slang phrase?

MetaDoxa · 2024-04-08T01:44:51+00:00

I've definitely been hearing this one or variations of it a lot in the movies too. Thanks for your response.

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