Word: chic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should find his niche in an urbane journal of fripperies and follies. Such a journal is the weekly New Yorker which, since its inception four years ago, has contained his work. The New Yorker has more to say about polo and modistes than about multilateral treaties. It is a chic Baedecker for those who will be chic. It was in this magazine that Artist Arno exploited-his famed Whoops Sisters, a pair of blithe Victorian crones who swept with muffs and bonnets about the city, never had their shoes off while the fleet was in, stood behind a nude statue...
...lady of devastating chic and ophidian fascination, who looks forward to penthouses rather than backward at palazzos, is the Cadillac-Fleetwood Art Moderne, a sleek transformable cabriolet in aluminum, black, copper, snakewood...
Bird's-eye or Flannelette diapers are considered chic this season and Papa will be glad to know they're only $1.36 and $1.59 a doz. as you'll want lots of them...
...thing as celebrating sans gin--frinstance when a big theatre has a big, big birthday party at the age of three--look at this-Richard Dix and Ruth Elder in "Moran of the Marines" a zestful, rollicking romance-comedy, George Bernard Shaw giving a sparkling, intimate interview and Chic Sale in a clowning bit, both thru the Fox Movietone--Gene Rodemich and the Publix Playboy Band in a lavish stageical and musical revue--de luxe--especially concocted by Boris Petroff--and too many other things to mention here--all in honor of the third marvelous anniversary of the "Showplace...
Many a fortunate Parisian hastened, last week, from the grand openings of the dressmakers to ponder how she should persuade her husband that no matter how chic she might appear in his eyes, in truth she would be in rags unless her wardrobe conformed to these newly-pronounced edicts...