Word: chicly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duchess de Talleyrand, 70, chic, spry daughter of the late financier Jay Gould, and a longtime (40 years) resident of prewar France, announced that she would auction off her famed collection of orchid plants-more than 5,000, valued at about $75,000-for the benefit of the Red Cross. In giving up the collection, which blooms in a two-block-long greenhouse on the Gould estate in Tarrytown, N.Y., the Duchess will save some 75 tons of coal for spring heating, can free nine gardeners for other work...
...Even though some of the appointments of Livadia Palace were luxurious, the plumbing was elementary. Explained Correspondent Cornell: "Supplementary ('Chic Sale'), facilities were installed outdoors; wash basins, pitchers and buckets were supplied indoors...
...spring of 1940, when chic society disintegrated at the approaching threat of German boots, Trinity's Dean Frederick W. Beekman fled to the U.S. Organist Whipp, left in charge, moved into the deanery to run the church. He held services for the few remaining parishioners (he could not perform Holy Communion), baptized six children, buried 40 Americans, visited and comforted the sick...
Divorced. By Susanna Wilson Hare, 28, chic daughter of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Caldwell Wil son), David Meredith Hare, 28, color photographer and surrealist sculptor; after seven years of childless marriage ; in Reno...
Says Bridge Champion Rapee: "Check is a welcome relief . . . from racking your brain over a mathematical bridge hand. . . ... Your interest is always kept up by the fast play . . . and you're never a dummy." Mrs. Helen Sobel, chic, cool No. 1 woman bridge expert, tried her hand at the game, gave an unexpected reason for its probable popularity: "A husband won't be able to tell his wife he's going out to play pinochle with the boys. . . . From now on, every wife can be part of the game...