Word: pompadour
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...officially denied in Bucharest that the train had been fired on. Officially the Iron Guard announced that it had wanted to kill, not Carol II, but only his "Jewish Pompadour," Mme. Magda Lupescu. But in the Balkans nobody was fooled. An unsuccessful dictator had been driven from his country...
...Cover) Into the grey Elysee Palace-home in other historic times of Madame de Pompadour, Napoleon I, Tsar Alexander I, the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon III; home now of gentle President Albert Le-brun-strode a onetime Premier of France one morning last week: Pierre Laval, fresh from Rome. M. Laval was grave. He reported to President Lebrun that there was nothing to be hoped for from the hungry Italians. If anyone could wring concessions from Rome, it should have been the realistic co-author of the ill-fated Hoare-Laval Ethiopian Deal; but he might as well have tried...
...feet. According to her critics it was Magda who made or broke Cabinets; it was her scheme, first, to finance the pro-Nazi, anti-Jewish Iron Guards (which, incidentally, listed her as No. 1 to be assassinated) only later to get them jailed. A word with this combination Mme Pompadour and Rasputin would do wonders, it was said, and an invitation to her house was tantamount to a royal summons...
...remained a Victorian. Tall, with a changeless hat crowning her changeless pompadour, she bears a striking resemblance to Britain's Dowager Queen Mary. When Edward VIII, then visiting Washington as Prince of Wales, was ushered into her presence, he exclaimed, "Good Lord-there's Mother...
...pink-faced, tall youngster with a copper-colored moustache, wavy pompadour, studious spectacles and knowing eyes, Clemens got his B.A. at Madison in 1932, studied at Chicago's Art Institute, married a pretty girl and returned to Milwaukee to work on the Federal Art Project. To Manhattan, along with his paintings, he sent a written declaration of his love for the great painters, for oil painting and for the female body. More noteworthy than this credo was his challenge to the school in which Discoverer Curry was discovered eight years ago: "I am glad to see that . . . the emphasis...