Word: chic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While homage was thick in London, Paris burbled over Picasso's latest joke. Sitting as usual in the evening at the Café de Flore with a chic woman, the forelocked Spaniard who has the Midas touch was joined by three picture dealers, then by three more. He picked up an empty cigaret package, cryptically manipulated it under the table, finally brought out a little figurine of a dancer with the remark: "Well, there's the latest Picasso." Amid a chorus of admiring compliments, artist and girl friend departed. The six picture dealers were just on the point...
...Aspro Ltd. which sells Europeans half a billion headache tablets yearly, crowed: "I am elated. Australia has always been keen on the Royal Family. We want a governor general from outside the Dominion who can make unprejudiced decisions. The Duchess will appeal to Australians because she is beautiful and chic and a mother...
...crisis is occasioned by a handsome young inventor (Vincent Price, onetime stage lead to Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina) who bitterly resents her professional efforts to manage his career. Chic, wholesome and moderately funny, Service de Luxe benefits by characteristic performances from Charles Ruggles, Helen Broderick and Mischa Auer, an unusually bright script. Best line: Broderick's description of the meeting between Price and Bennett: "When freak meets freak...
...been the highly marketable stock-in-trade of smart, nosey Inez Callaway Robb, who for the last ten years has been sticking pins into stuffed shirts as "Nancy Randolph'' of the world's biggest tabloid, Manhattan's daily News. This week blue-eyed Inez Robb, chic and peppy at 36 despite her greying hair, started on a brand new job as "roving reporter," covering U. S. and international high life for the rival New York Mirror and more than 100 other papers lined up by King Features Syndicate. First assignment : to survey the prospects for socialite...
...Senate's best-dressed, most socially polished Senator, he gave up bachelorhood in 1936 to marry Ambassador Joseph Davies' chic daughter Eleanor...