Word: pompadour
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...exalted nobility of the House d'Uzés, espoused the grandson of the greatest and most socially prominent horsewoman in all France, the late Dowager Duchesse d'Uzés (TIME, Feb. 13, 1933). Thereupon Marie Louise set out to become, as it were, the Pompadour of the Proletariat...
...blocks of marble were quarried before Miss Frick found one with just the color she wanted for a fountain in the central court. Mrs. Frick was wont to take her ease in a boudoir on the second floor whose panels had once been painted by Boucher for Mme de Pompadour. This had to be dismantled and set up again in what was once the Frick pantry. Engineers were called in to design special glareless lights for each picture. Then finally the ''reasonable regulations" were drawn...
...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...