Word: chic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Florence's chic ankles twinkled toward him. Her figure is svelte, lithe-though she does not dance-her voice sultry, a blues voice. At a curt nod from her the huge, perspiring black who is Miss Jones' husband snapped his hot-time jazz baton. Prince Henry hesitated, then rose, followed Florence out on the floor and black-bottomed...
...Chic Chicago...
...chows from down the hill, were oddly enough the first to wind anything. They told Golden Toes that his mother, Rennie, was looking beautiful and young Toes, sociable no end, repeated the remark at home. Kim, the lean Irish rake, who had often enough growled that Rennie had "neither chic nor chien" and who despised the chows as stupid foreigners, bristled at the news, but not in anger. A tremor passed down the lupine spine off big Boris, too, and that very afternoon he was so sentimental about Rennie's glossy brown coat and hang-down ears that Tessa...
Wadsworth House--Massachusetts Avenue at Rhinitis--No couvert--Heavy atmosphere, but unexcelled for those who like-the bailey-hoo kind of amuscment. Chic Sales does his preacher act reularly...
...Paree was unloaded at the Winter Garden, where smoking is permitted. The Shubert machine knows its business, knows what the Winter Garden public wants for $5.50. It offers well-drilled squads of girls in conscientious exercises. It' splashes the stage with prismatic voluptuousness. It jollies the audience. Charles ("Chic") Sale appears in Yankee caricatures, a pleasant departure from the stale Jewish, Irish, Italian, Russian, Negro takeoffs. His comedy is the show's high spot. There is a funny skit wherein a neglected wife rebels against the oft-repeated "Good night, Mother of Three" adieus of a husband...