Word: chicly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Viscount's chic, young (26) wife had her troubles, too. When she appeared at Elizabeth Arden's Bond Street shop to get a shampoo and facial, the manager marched her into a private office and said: "I don't want to embarrass you, but after what happened in Hong Kong there is not a girl here who wants to give you a treatment. You ought to go away before you are insulted. . . ." Viscountess Kano left...
...they always have to take the nicest boys in their asinine old draft? It's true they do look simply so chic in uniform. So much so that the women, impressed by what a Sam Browne belt will do for a tubby physique, are flocking into civilian defense organizations so they can wear uniforms themselves. But oh, how wrong they are! The fair sex just don't seem to have been built for khaki. Those severe, blue-grey creations which would harass Mainbocher or Schiaparclli to an early grave have bulges in the wrong places and straight lines just where...
...Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall headed a long list of Back Bay notables who gathered to gaze and admire. But Maxim Karolik was not there. He had slipped out a back door as the distinguished guests walked in the front entrance. "I consider it iss correct, it iss even chic that the Karoliks should not go to the opening," he explained. "It iss better that the collection should shine by its own glory...
Sons o' Fun (produced by the Shuberts). Having given Hellzapoppin almost the national standing of the Statue of Liberty and the Washington Monument, Ole Olsen & Chic Johnson last week raised the curtain (and the roof) on a new epic of insanity. Sons o' Fun decidedly takes after its Hellzapoppa, even going him one better at times. But, just as clearly, its mother is an oldfashioned, hard-plugging show girl: a lot of the show is straight routine revue...
...music was by a Frenchified German Jew (Offenbach), the sets and costumes by a Manhattan-French commercial artist (Marcel Vertés.) the hats by chic U.S. milliners (John-Frederics), the choreography by a veteran Russian (Michel Fokine), the leaping and cavorting by a foreign legion of nationalities(the Ballet Theatre). Such was the ballet Bluebeard, a smash hit whenit was put on last week in Manhattan...