Word: boudoirs
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...panelling in several rooms had to be taken apart piecemeal and replaced. Eighteen ten-ton blocks of marble were quarried before Miss Frick found one with just the color she wanted for a fountain in the central court. Mrs. Frick was wont to take her ease in a boudoir on the second floor whose panels had once been painted by Boucher for Mme de Pompadour. This had to be dismantled and set up again in what was once the Frick pantry. Engineers were called in to design special glareless lights for each picture. Then finally the ''reasonable regulations...
...drawings are of even more interest. There are two which form a series, the first being called "Twenty Pounds Too Much." This shows an enormously fat, repulsive woman in a luxurious boudoir being massaged by a main. The second, "Twenty Pounds Too Little," pictures a woman, who, from lack of food, has become almost a skeleton, lying on a bare mattress in an underground squalid room, while sitting about her are her husband and little son. On a table by the bed are two empty food bowls...
...gold plated boudoir clock, attached to stand, marked "M. V. Georgic...
...have two leading ladies-Ann Sothern, as the music-hall comedian's jealous mistress: slant-eyed Merle Oberon as the financier's mischievous wife. If the suspense of wondering whether the financier knows whether his wife knows who was making love to her in her boudoir fails to keep the audience alert, this is also an advantage: it makes the more welcome those interruptions in which Chevalier, as gay and ingratiating as usual, goes into his songs. Good bets for radio include: "Rhythm of the Rain," "I Was Lucky," "Singing a Happy Song...
...offices in Bouverie Street. It was not long before News Of The World was as common a phenomenon of the British Sunday morning as church bells. Full accounts of the nation's latest divorces, accidents and murders were devoured downstairs by goggle-eyed scullery-maids. Upstairs in her boudoir the lady of the house was feasting on the same spicy journalistic fare, for to the upper crust the paper's selling point was that it presented the week's scandal news in toto and in one lump. Up, up, up climbed circulation. By last week News Of The World...