Word: pompadours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inexperience of American audiences in theatrical terrorism. Frantic screeds from the offices of the promoters asseverated that the true spine shatterings would begin with the second week's bill. Mild scepticism greeted these promises. The cynical theatrical population dared the visitors to rearrange its smooth marcel into a prickly pompadour...
...palace and there informed that he was relieved of his functions. Blanc fainted when the order was read to him and again on reaching his residence; he is now suffering from a paralytic stroke. His dismissal follows the exile from the municipality of Mme. Chinon, famous adventuress, " Madame Pompadour of Monaco." It is the outcome of some remarkable revelations of graft unearthed by special auditors appointed by the Prince. Recently Prince Louis discovered that the Principality had been defrauded of more than...
...this year at the Sporting Club he-won 2,000,000 francs, the bulk of which was so great that it had to be carried to his hotel by Casino porters in ten waste paper baskets crammed to the limit of their capacity. Mme. Chinon, the deposed "Madame Pompadour" of Monaco, wielded unlimited power over the Casino. No employee was hired or dismissed without her approval. No prizes were given for any competition unless she had been previously consulted...
...staid Montesquieu, that man whose works Professor Munro always recommends but which no undergraduate has ever read. Perhaps that wary looking volume, which the card describes as "Etat des troupes et des etats-major des places"--once wholted the stern glance of Richelieu. It was Madame de Pompadour's and she, upon receiving it from His Majesty, probably placed it among her perfumed volumes never to be opened. There is another book which I know must have been opened and not only opened but read "The Anatomy of Melancholy". Who ever read that book? Boswell, and we believe he actually...
...14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, and a collection of autograph books. Included in the books owned by great men of the past, all with the autograph of the owner, are John Bunyan's Bible, Racine's New Testament, and books of Napoleon Bonaparte, Louis XIV, and the Marquise de Pompadour...