Word: facings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perfect mannequin's figure, the face of a pleasant elf, meticulousness, good taste, brains, and that French sauce of spirit that explains why Paris can remain, even in wartime, the world's style centre -these qualities combine to make Eve Curie, the 35-year-old daughter and biographer of Madame Marie Sklodovska Curie, a woman whose changes of dress or hairdo sometimes swing whole fashions. Last week Eve Curie wrote in Vogue about what happens to fashions in the face of tragedy...
...which her frightened son inadvertently mixes up with poison after breaking a poison bottle. The doctor and the Austrian girl are held for murder. Sentenced to be hanged, he is comforted by the thought that other people find most disturbing: "Death is not the worst thing we have to face, only the last...
...Senate of the United States Senator Louis Wigfall of Texas, an elegant credited with winging his man in eight duels, could face the Northern Senators to say, delicately: "The difficulty between you and us, gentlemen, is, that you will not send the right sort of people here. Why will you not send either Christians or gentlemen?" And Senator Seward of New York, hearing a Louisiana Senator pour on him accusations of bad faith, could remark: "Benjamin, give me a cigar and when your speech is printed send me a copy...
...brown face wearing a beard for the first time (no one ever heard him seriously explain why), Lincoln arrived in Washington "like a thief in the night," with one companion, his friends having sent him on ahead to escape a mob in Baltimore. At Columbus on the way he had said in a curious, trance-like speech: "Without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country...
...just been called to order by the Chairman, when the officer stationed at the committee room door came in with a half-frightened expression on his face. Before he had opportunity to make explanation, we understood . . . and were ourselves almost overwhelmed with astonishment. For at the foot of the Committee table, standing solitary, his hat in his hand, his form towering, Abraham Lincoln stood." What the Committee member got was "above all an indescribable sense of his [Lincoln's] complete isolation...