Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outburst touched off a barrage of letters to the London Times. Pudgy, pompous Lord Brabazon wrote that he thought he saw a painting of what seemed to be broken iron castings. Matisse had titled it A Recumbent Woman. (Huffed Lord Brabazon, "We shall soon be told that a multiple drill has sex appeal.") Two letter writers thought Picasso's pictures should be kept from children. Another critic was not so worried. He reported overhearing a six-year-old, who had intently studied a swollen, mysterious Picasso abstraction, comment: "Why, there's a hippopotamus...
Tall, auburn-haired Dorothy Shaver began her career with rag dolls. Last week, from her $75,000-a-year job, she went to greater riches. She was elected the first woman president of Fifth Avenue's smart Lord & Taylor, to succeed Walter Hoving, president...
...success was due to a personality of opposites. Her father's family of lawyers gave her a tough masculine mind; her mother's family of artists a highly feminine creative touch. In her 22 years at Lord & Taylor's she used them both to advantage. Under the team of Hoving & Shaver, Lord & Taylor became one of the nation's swank stores. And Dorothy Shaver became one of Manhattan's top purveyors of fashion...
...Lord & Taylor heard about it and sent four strapping men to see the Five Little Shavers. Impressed, they took the dolls back to Lord & Taylor, and the public took to the dolls. Sentimental women fondly carried them around under their arms as mascots...
Then the sisters opened a shop, Elsie designing, Dorothy managing. Impressed again, Lord & Taylor reached out for Dorothy, put her in charge of its Comparative Shopping Bureau. She reorganized it top & bottom, got rid of the dingy "spy system," put in a Bureau of Stylists to help buyers and improve merchandising. Most of all she plugged fashion, at first that of Paris (she staged the first exhibit in America of modern French decorative art). Then she turned her attention from Paris and battled for recognition of American fashion and design...