Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lanvin's and Worth's felt as cold as the Zouave's ice. The Paris Models' Union announced that the wages for its members posing nude in unheated studios would be upped 30? an hour, effective "as soon as the model complains of chair de poule" (hen's flesh, i.e., goose pimples...
Near Mont Tremblant's slopes and mile-long chair lift is the plushy Manoir Pinoteau, which features French cooking. A short run away is a more typical Laurentian resort: Gray Rocks Inn, a sprawling, homey frame house where the food is substantial, the rates low ($5 to $7 a day, including meals), and good slopes and trails start at the back door. There, as in most of the lodges, expert and duffer alike turn out for ski-school lessons at rates which average $2 for a half-day. There are scores of others, from the stucco Chalet Cochand...
...having bossed the Macloud household for 50-odd years, she knew a trick or two. That evening in St. Louis, while waiting for her eldest, son to call, she wore her grey silk dress and looked as calm as Whistler's mother. The lamp over her chair was lit, but her eyes were closed and her head was tilted back, "as if some beneficent rays were reaching her from the 60-watt bulb...
Many of his subjects have to be snapped in a hurry. General Charles de Gaulle could spare only 30 seconds for his portrait. Yet the single superb picture caught Le grand Charlie's imperious, cold character perfectly. John L. Lewis dashed out of his chair after each exposure, dashed out of the room the fourth time. George Bernard Shaw gave Karsh five minutes when he sat down. But when he found out that Karsh was an Armenian by birth, he gave him a Shavian shaving: "I have many friends among the Armenians, but to keep them strong and healthy...
...hates to see other people get excited") posed for 22 minutes. Former Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes sat statuesquely for 45 minutes before intoning: "And now, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." When Britain's wartime bomber chief, Lord Portal, appeared direct from the barber's chair, Karsh suggested they wait two weeks because a new haircut "automatically makes a photograph unfit for publication...