Word: objet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Porter can be frostily aloof when bored, but he can also be warmly demonstrative when something takes his fancy. He has been known to get emotional over an objet d'art or a piece of costume jewelry, and he has been moved to tears by revisiting his old Yale haunts and by hearing Lena Home sing...
...publicity stunt, a kiss from a shy window decorator (Robert Walker) melts the cold marble into ardent flesh. The living Venus has arms and some interesting ideas about using them. Her timid swain is mainly interested in 1) persuading her to go back to work as an objet d'art, and 2) placating his landlady, his girl and his boss...
...story: Robert Walker, a bellhop, becomes the personal attendant of Hedy Lamarr, a mythical European princess briefly visiting a hotel on Manhattan's Central Park South. Infatuated, he no longer has time or heart to spare for June Allyson, a little cripple who loves him. No objet d'art in the royal suite is insurable against his awed backward stumblings and heel-clackings...
...revolt gun," to be dropped by parachute to the rebellious people of conquered Europe when the time is ripe. Colonel Studler's gadget will never stir a gunsmith's soul, but to a despairing Pole. Czech or Dutchman it might look like a rare and lovely objet...
...Council could expand our plan and make it even more specific, both in its content an its organization. The tutorial system, which the Teachers' Union investigated from the point of view of administration and personnel, might well be considered from the student's point of view, with the objet of discovering what part it actually plays in the education of different types of students and what might be done to improve it. We believe that all these problems should be of vital interest to students and that it is the Council's duty, as their representative, to concern itself with...