Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Artist Boutet de Monvel has redecorated in a style which Artist Ingres would have liked to afford. Artist Boutet de Monvel lives amid beautiful women. Rich ones sit to him for their portraits, poor ones are models for the fashion plates he draws for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, the Gazette de Bon Ton. Always impeccably dressed in public, he is sufficiently bohemian to paint in a blue-&-black striped blazer and patent leather pumps. He is fond of gold cigaret cases and dark red carnations with evening clothes. In Paris he lives very quietly. In New York, whither...
...charity bazaar in Milan, Gabriele d'Annunzio gave one of his molar teeth, encased in a silver chest upon which he had engraved the Latin word Durabo (I will last). It was raffled off for 3,000 lire (about $150). Poet d'Annunzio. now practically toothless, bald as an egg, also contributed his War cigarets (bought by a nephew of Il Duce for 1,500 lire - about $75), a piece of cloth on which he had painted a design "with a violent hand." and a bewitched bird. Interviewed upon landing at Rotterdam, bushy-haired Albert Einstein remarked: "Nice...
...Asked by Manhattan Chinese to send something to be sold at a Shanghai refugee's bazaar, Mrs. Hoover sent a picture of the White House, apologetically adding: "It is the only thing we have on hand at the moment...
...boycott movement" wrote Commissioner Ainscough "was ostensibly directed against all countries but imports from Japan continued to arrive and were sold in large quantities. . . . The boycott movement against [British] cigarets was very active and extended also to drugs, soaps, cycles, tires, bazaar metals, hardware and certain electrical accessories...
...Editor, during those trying seven years of Van Tassel to Forker to Drake during which Harper's Bazaar became a valuable property, was the now noted observer, successful Adman and happy TIME reader...