Word: chic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought the best chance was in the wholesale fabric business, where there were few women, and she picked S. Stroock & Co., Inc., as her target. President Sylvan Stroock offered her something less than a million, but Elsie took the job anyway-at $20 a week. By last week chic, shrewd Mrs. Murphy had still not made her million. But, at 41, she did become the $35,000-a-year president of the company (Sylvan Stroock moved himself up to the new post of board chairman...
Illustrator George Petty pooh-poohed the vaunted French chic: "When the middle-class French girl dresses up, she undresses. Her costume is a display of sex . . . whereas the healthy outdoor life of the American girl gives her natural radiance, which is the true attraction of the opposite...
Photographer Horst and the jeweled ladies of the staff discussed me in that dispassionately critical manner reserved for models and their mute counterparts in store windows, and of course my self-esteem derived no benefit from Lisa's appalling chic...
Offstage, Piaf, now 33, is more hoyden than gamin, loves to poke fun in a husky voice at her manager and friends. And she doesn't worry about her appearance distracting; with her hair combed, and a smartly tailored suit, she is très chic. She is doggedly serious about learning English. She takes a lesson a day; instead of table hopping between her two shows at the Versailles, she studies her grammar book in her dressing room. The main reason: after her third visit to the U.S., she has decided "six months Paris, six months New York...
Deauville in northwest France (long-considered much more chic in August than the hot Riviera), where they expected to visit the Aga's son, the Aly Khan, and his bride, Rita Hayworth. Just outside the gates of their villa, a black Citroën (license number 1707RN7) crowded their Cadillac to the side of the road. Three shabbily dressed men jumped out, and before anyone could snap a finger the Aga Khan's party was looking into the muzzles of menacing Tommy guns...