Word: cotillon
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...musicians are fine, and some of the songs--a beautiful first-act cotillon about how Youth's the Season made for Joys, for instance--come through beautifully. They all help the ironic stylization virtually imposed on director Gene Lesser by the play's ironic, stylized speech--"Money, Wife," Mr. Peachum the fence explains, "is the true Fuller's Earth for Reputations, there is not a Spot or a Stain but what it can take...
Symptomatic of current French political developments was the interruption of a charming ballet number by Mare Alexandre, Jean Cotillon, and Linda Cabot '51, with a Russian kazatzki by one of the disguised males of the trio...
Besides his favorite artists Crowninshield is ready to pay fond tribute to the late great Architect Stanford White, to the old Waldorf, to the full-rigged hostess of the 1900s, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. He is an accomplished toastmaster, cotillon leader, bon vivant who neither drinks nor smokes, first-nighter, balletomane, golfer, bridge player, cat enthusiast, and clubman (Union, Knickerbocker). He once hired Dorothy Parker to write for him on the strength of one line she produced in an advertising agency ("Brevity is the soul of lingerie...
...that would stand for something anywhere"; "His family is conservative of the conservatives"; "Mother belongs to the Chilton Club"; "The apple of the family eye--a son among four daughters"; "Smart in 1930; prominent in 1865"; and "If he were a girl he would be presented at the Bachelors' Cotillon in Baltimore...
There is no cartoon of what the Freshman does with his Christmas presents. There is no facetious time schedule of the cotillon snake, home from college for three and a fractional days. There is no stinging editorial against the Faculty because it still rations the University with a ten-day instead of a two-weeks' recess. There is no paragraph on the troubles of Christmas shopping in Boston...