Word: chic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light brown hair and gray-blue eyes, the bride's youthfulness suddenly seemed to take on a certain queenliness as she swept from end to end of this lane of light. Her gown of soft white crinkly crepe was the essence of simplicity and therefore the perfection of chic. . . . "Held closely to her well-poised head, her fair hair visible through its delicate mesh, this airy, unsubstantial fabric [the veil] drifted in long, broad folds for yards behind her, as fragile as a mist, enmeshing her tall figure, concealing her face, and, in its upturned brim that circled...
...companion, twice-married Mrs. Victoria Price, with whom (and seven white boys) she bummed her way to Chattanooga and back. Mrs. Price says she supports herself & mother on the $13 a month she makes at a Huntsville cotton mill. In court she appeared the last word in cracker chic. She still sticks to her story that the Negroes threw six of her seven white male companions off the train, stripped her, raped her at knife's point...
...most eloquent appeal for funds thus far was made last week by Geraldine Farrar. White-haired and chic, she appeared on the Metropolitan stage between acts at Parsifal, so roused the audience that people started to hand checks and dollar bills over the footlights. Next night Mrs. August Belmont spoke and three of her friends (Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, Mrs. Robert Goelet) waved $1,000 checks from the Diamond Horseshoe. Contributions of $10,000, biggest individual ones so far, came from Pierre du Pont and Louis Eckstein who still hopes to be able to give...
...more expensive restaurants. His contemporaries and critics are as respectful of his talent as they may be envious of his life. One of the ablest of society portraitists, his style is his own, exactly suited for what he tries to do: make a record of decorative scenes, 20th Century chic...
...Lehmann. Dusty Answer (1927) might have been a lucky strike; A Note in Music showed it was not. In Invitation to the Waltz Authoress Lehmann, with sure and delicate touch, tells a tale of vernal English virginity. Olivia and Kate were sisters, both pretty, but different. Kate was neat, chic, determined; Olivia dowdy and diffuse. Both were beside themselves with breathless ambition at the prospect of Lady Spencer's dance-Olivia's first. Their hard-put-to-it mother had relaxed so far as to let them invite a young Oxonian to escort them. Reggie turned...