Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The furrier was Edwin Goodman, owner of Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman, a store which Edwin Goodman calls, with some reason, the "most elegant specialty shop in the world." Last week New York's W'hitneys, Sloans, Rockefellers and 850 other guests turned out to dine & dance at...
Poems, by Alfred Tennyson (July 24, 1965): "These two elegant volumes . . . present us with the entire title deeds to immortality of one of whom the Anglo-Saxon speaking world has consented to receive as the representative poet of the intellectual era."
¶ A 1939 Talbot (France): an elegant two-toned coupe with two perfume and vanity compartments for the ladies. "A composition of . . . voluptuous shapes."
Read casually, The Holy Sinner seems merely an affectionate embroidery of a pious legend. But that would not be Thomas Mann. As usual, he has glazed the legend with elegant mockery; the notions of Freud creep in to jostle the miracles of faith. Here is a delightful story, Mann seems...
Probably without analyzing it, the Victorian woman felt impelled to cover herself with layer upon heavy layer of elegant materials, awkwardly expanded with hoops and bustles, to help her personality compete with the cluttered detail of her rooms. The woman of today . . . can sparkle, even in a simple sheath gown...