Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evident. Schiaparelli offered a model with a bustle in front. Lelong put jeeps on charm bracelets. Agile, aging (70) Madame Jeanne Lanvin (who served iced drinks to shivering patronesses} showed a slinky, black, backless, low-front evening dress called "Liberty." She also offered a simple frock of palest pink named "Free France...
Inconsolable. Maillol was descended from a family of fishermen and smugglers of Banyuls. The sculptor spent much of his life in the pink stucco house where he was born. As a youth he studied painting in Paris, but he was unsuccessful with the brush. Not until he was 40 did he have any working knowledge of sculpture. Then one day he picked up a fallen tree trunk, from it carved a woman's figure. For the next 42 years he devoted himself almost entirely to carving and modeling female forms. "I am inconsolable," he once said, "not to have...
Matisse had been painting tanned, voluptuous young girls such as his Dancer in Blue Dress. His Woman in Veil was top-form and more familiar in subject: bold, exuberant painting in sensuous flesh pink decorated with gay scrolls and dots...
...Times-Herald account said "it was believed" that the Teamsters' greying, pink-cheeked president, "Uncle Dan" Tobin himself, had been one of the participants in the fight. It said further that Uncle Dan had promptly called Presidential Secretary Steve Early and demanded that the news of the brawl be suppressed...
Spectacular Serge. By far the most spectacular collaborationist in Parisian musical circles was the famed Russian ballet dancer, Serge Lifar, whom some critics regard as the inheritor of the pink tights of the great Vaslav Nijinsky. Lifar had not only spent the days of German occupation as the toast of the Wehrmacht's more sybaritic officer set; he crowed publicly over each new feat of German arms. Up to last week, the F.F.I, had been unable to find Serge Lifar. He was in hiding, periodically telephoning his friends...