Word: chicly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opposite Manhattan's topless towers, on Hoboken's Fifth Street Pier, the tightly phalanxed crowd was as agitated as an Agnes de Mille ballet, and every bit as chic. Before backdrops of exquisite luggage moved exquisite figures-Katharine Hepburn the actress, the Marquis and Marquise de Cuevas of the international set, and "Mile. Ciné-Revue," the Belgian beauty queen (not to mention a sprinkling of ambassadors and two Marshall Plan emissaries). Also present were Mr. Hamish MacGregor, Mr. S. Wodowski, Mrs. A. Haggerty. Many passengers received, instead of steamer baskets, food parcels for their friends...
...When I get that guy," she continued, "the first thing I want to do is take a trip to Mexico. He'll have to buy me a toy fox terrier, one that weighs less than two pounds. I love the things." She fingered the borrowed pearls on her chic black dress, tugged at the borrowed fur coat she was wearing...
...about that double meaning. There was no such thing. The gag that horrified Mr. Leech had jes' one single meaning. A few days later Gracie Allen used precisely the same gag on the air. American humorists going back from Chic Sale to Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Artemus Ward have all had fun with just such gags. Everybody laughed, nobody griped-just Leech...
Comedian Danny Kaye moved to a hotel, leaving behind wife Sylvia, who has spent most of his career writing his song lyrics and comedy routines. "A trial separation," the couple's business manager called it, "merely for a period of readjustment." Anyway, Comedian Kaye got a chic sendoff: smartchat Vogue appeared with an interpretive photograph of him, ringed with profound symbols (a piccolo, an umbrella, a plaster brain, a yoyo, a sand pail, a fiddle, a galosh, a pop bottle, a dead chicken, a milk bottle wearing...
Adam Gimbel, a chronic bachelor whom she had met socially some years previously, hired her after a look at some of her theatrical designs-as a "stylist" at Saks. (Stylists were experts in good taste who counseled buyers on what was "chic.") One of her jobs was to go to Paris and buy French models to bring back for Saks to copy. In 1929, he asked her to take over the then slipping Salon Moderne...