Word: fifi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Ambroise ("Fifi") Vollard, 72, famed, bearded, hulking French art dealer, who specialized in boosting the Impressionist painters (Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne); in an automobile crash near Versailles. Shrewd, bold in his judgments, when Cezanne died Vollard hastened to Aix, cornered the contents of the painter's studio, made a fortune...
...social event of Palm Beach's 1939 season** to date has been the swank Everglades Club's Circus Ball. Preceding it, socialites of various shades paraded down Worth Avenue. Mrs. Aksel C. P. Wichfeld (Fifi Widener), insufficiently disguised as Sabu, led a real elephant on a leash. Polo players Winston Guest and George J. Atwell Jr., in pigsticking regalia, chased pigs, pretending they were boars. Society Songstress Adelaide Moffett Brooks impersonated Miss Palm Beach of 1939, followed by a Seminole Indian representing 1539, a chimpanzee representing A.D. 39. Evalyn Walsh McLean, as usual, wore the Hope Diamond. Jimmie...
Married. Guy Stillman, 19, son of Chicago's Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman McCormick; and Nancy Holbrook, 17, his neighbor; in Dundee...
Engaged. Guy Stillman, 19, son of Chicago's Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman McCormick and Manhattan Banker James Alexander Stillman; to Nancy Holbrook, 17, of Barrington, Ill. In 1920 Banker Stillman filed divorce papers against his wife, charging that Guy's father was an Indian guide, Fred Beauvais, but lost the suit...
...didn't see a single damn Rebel warship or a single mine. I'll go anywhere merchant ships can go as long as I've got a sturdy British bottom like the Seven Seas Spray, a good crew and my daughter Fifi. . . . She has no intention of marrying, but prefers to remain with me. She doesn't know what fear is, and during our trip from Saint-Jean-de-Luz she was right there on the bridge, wearing trousers...