Word: kiki
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have just read your account of Kiki [TIME, April 15], where a reference is made to Trilby's "tiny feet." Remembering that Trilby was "very tall and fully developed...
...better take another turn through memory lane and glance at Trilby's feet. You will find that they were shapely but not "tiny" as you say in your Kiki article. . . . Her shoes would have fitted that miner's daughter, Clementine, nicely. She had big teeth, a big mouth, and I'll bet she would have made a hit in The Outlaw...
There was Kisling, "the swellest guy in the world," the mystic Stuckgold, who always placed his naked models in another room so he couldn't see them when he worked. There was savage, ascetic Soutine, who smashed his chair and table to kindling wood so Kiki could be warm; Soutine slept curled up on the floor while Kiki took his bed. And saturnine Maurice Utrillo, who was once so stirred by her magnificent peasant nudity that he painted a brilliant picture of a huge cow barn...
When the Germans took over. Kiki dropped out of sight. Sentimental Left Bankers typically believed a rumor that she had retired to the country and was raising a family of healthy children. But this happy ending was untrue...
However frustrating life may be in U.S. suburbia, life is harder still on such "toasts of Paris." Du Maurier's Trilby died miserably, drugged to the last by Svengali's evil eye. Last week, flabby and 45, her cheeks pasty white and sagging, Kiki shuffled out of the door of La Roquette Prison. Picked up a month ago near the old Dome for peddling narcotics, Kiki was out on bail so that doctors could treat her drug-shattered nerves...