Word: pompadour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...18th Century, Pompadour, Lady Hamilton and Josephine wage their own private wars against the ravages of time while a woman hangs by her chin from a hook to reduce her "goozle" and two men at a windlass lace up the corset of the mural's only fat woman...
...Baby Pompadour (by Benjamin Graham; Arthur Dreifuss & Willard G. Gernhardt, producers). A program note to Baby Pompadour states: "Benjamin Graham, the author of the play, is a well-known figure in the financial world, and identified with the affairs of many impor tant corporations. He is also the senior author of an authoritative work in 'Security Analysis,' a member of the faculty of Columbia University, and active in the sphere of economics. Playwriting is his hobby and Baby Pompadour is his first...
After seeing Baby Pompadour most critics advised Mr. Graham to get a new hobby...
When Mr. Pipp acquired a daughter, a magnificent creature with a bust, a pompadour, and a Grecian profile (see cut), Charles Dana Gibson became world-famed. No U.S. illustrator has ever had such a vogue. Collier's paid him $100,000 for a series of drawings. The Kaiser gave the Gibson Girl his official approval. There were songs about la fille Gibson on the Paris boulevards. A framed Gibson girl was as important to the U.S. undergraduate of 30 years ago as a bulldog pipe and a pearl-buttoned reefer...
...Bucharest ghetto, legend enshrouds the wiles by which the junk dealer's daughter became La Pompadour. She is supposed to have learned that Carol would drive back one night along a certain woodland road. As the headlights of the royal car cut the darkness, out into the road staggered beauteous Magda, her clothing enticingly torn, her red hair flying. "Save me!" she cried and Carol, struck by her beauty, took her home, has been held by her charm ever since...