Word: foyer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...IVORY COAST Under the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Volunteers will work in Ivory Coast female adult education programs known as "Foyer Feminines" to teach Ivoirien women literacy, basic health and home arts and to broaden their horizons. They will work in both urban and rural areas...
Zentgraf informed the salesman that soliciting from table-to-table is never permitted and that he needed permission from Dean Watson to be selling anything at the Union, even in the foyer...
...some neighbors' standards-in a $400,000 one-bedroom house in Beverly Hills designed by Harold Lezitt. There is a Henry Moore beside the driveway, a Soutine on the dining-room wall, and a Bernard Buffet portrait of Wasserman himself, a gift from Alfred Hitchcock, in the foyer. Mrs. Wasserman sleeps in the bedroom. Wasserman sleeps on a couch in the study, where he gets up at 5 each morning and starts making phone calls to breakfasting subordinates in New York...
They prefer concerts and auctions to canasta and golf, are likely to spend the time their mothers relegated to ladies' luncheons to tracking down a Directoire commode for the foyer, just the right bronze for the living-room mantle. If not elaborately educated in the mechanics of cooking, the New Elegants are nonetheless possessed of a sophisticated palate favoring simple Continental cuisine-everything light in body and definite in flavor, including the wines...
...desk sits a tiny Daumier bronze of a humble country bumpkin. He also wants his employees to appreciate art, gives them plenty to look at. Rarely have they failed to enjoy it, but once he had to take down a Leger tapestry of a mechanical man in the office foyer. Employees read themselves uncomfortably into the image...