Thus far in his career, Scaasi — who began life in Montreal as Arnold Isaacs and, upon entering the fashion business, reversed the spelling of his last name to Italianate effect — has made clothes for five First Ladies: the Mesdames Eisenhower, Kennedy, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II.
They know exactly where the mesdames et messieurs of Pret can stick their batons.
An etiquette writer in the World-Telegram, propounding the same problem, by a funny coincidence, advises the use of the French "Mesdames," followed, the writer goes on, "by the customary dash".
The New Yorker, February 25 , 1967P. 33 A man reported that on a recent Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Athens he was pleasantly surprised to hear the voice on the loudspeaker remark: "Mesdames et Messieurs, dans quelques instants nous survolverons l'Ile de Rhodes", pause a moment, and then say, "Ladies and gentlemen, in a few minutes we will be passing over Rhode Island".
Around went the little ball, to the croupier's "Mesdames, messieurs, faites vos jeux.
Etiquette writer advises the use of "Mesdames".
Mesdames!" shouts the Host of the Ball, over a sinister vamp in the bass.
More than 70% of those who come under the knife now earn less than $50,000 a year.The second big new market is in "well-being"—whole treatment systems that cover beauty, exercise and diet, including visits to spas, salons and clubs, and hark back to the early days of Mesdames Arden and Rubinstein.
It is not, messieurs, mesdames of Rusi, the existence of the bogey of multiculturalism that exposes us to the risk of terror, but efforts to impose a single monolithic and invented sense of "nationhood", which, if it is weak in relation to the intensities engendered by other ideologies, must mimic these, according to Rusi, in order that "we" should prevail.
launched several campaigns to expand participation throughout the country, using phrases like "Mesdames, Franchissez La Barriere!" ("Ladies, Go Through the Barrier!"), which encourages women to join their local teams, and "Les Journées 'rentrée du foot'" ("Return to Soccer Days"), timed for the end of summer holidays, to get girls to try the sport in the new school year.
The fight, which took place in Montreal, had the iconic ring announcer saying "mesdames et messieurs" rather than his usual "ladies and gentlemen, let's get ready to rumble!" Jean Pascal, a Haitain Roy Jones protégé, who looks and acts like his mentor was up against a Russian named Sergey Kovalev, with a reputation for being mean in and out of the ring.
