Word: fifi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia millionnaire art collector: "Directly following the marriage last week of my daughter, Fifi (see p. 32) it was reported from Manhattan that my agent had purchased, for $100,000, a rug once belonging to the late Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. The rug has a background of moss-green creepers, with orange-red stems, among which deer, gazelles, sheep, goats are pursued by lions and leopards.* There is a centre medallion of rose-crimson, with vine traceries in pink and silver around four hawklike birds...
...marital complications have long figured in the headlines of the daily news. He met his fiancèe seven years ago at the Stillman camp in Canada, when she was doing odd jobs around the Stillman house; was attracted by her personality, innocence, beauty, cooking. In Canada said Mother Fifi Stillman warmly, while Miss Wilson sat silent, composed: "I am delighted with Bud's choice. . . . Mr. Stillman is as pleased as I am. . . . We bought her an emerald and diamond ring, after shopping two days. It is a beautiful jewel but not more beautiful than the jewels that Lena...
...Anne U. Stillman: "I intend to have my hat-shop running by July. 'Fifi Potter Stillman. 379 Madison Ave., Hats.' The Ritz is just across the street...