Word: poseur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every few months smart Jap Artist Foujita is a Paris sensation. Not long ago he appeared in Deauville wearing leopard skin trousers, grey suspenders, no shirt and a high silk hat. "Temperament" murmured gullibles. "Poseur!" stormed the jealous. The smart Deauvillites voted him jocularly their "best dressed...
...Baroness Wrangel, General Wrangel's wife, in my house twice during the past four years and have received letters from her during that time. I am of course much interested to know whether not only myself but many, many others have been imposed upon by a poseur or whether there is some explanation, which I think must be the case. She has told us the complete story, the retreat of the White Army, the escape from the Crimea, the hiding of her jewels in her young child's rag doll, of the sinking of the Lucullus, which...
When, in 1905 he began to write operas, Strauss seemed already to have reached the top of his reputation. It was impossible any longer to regard him as a musical poseur, an esthete of loud noises; his phase of being "the new man" was over and he was already established as well as celebrated. Salome, like most of his other works, produced a new storm of discussion. It was performed once in Manhattan but Metropolitan-goers, disgusted with Oscar Wilde, were disgusted with his story on which the opera is based. It has never been given by the Metropolitan since...
...misunderstanding, as the Good Book says. What Good Book? I fancy you'll find it on the police docket. And that there may be no misunderstanding. I am not the man who stuffs birds, nor the Crime colyumist who stuffs Harvard. I came in here while the real poseur was out astonishing the natives of Hanover, and I haven't the manner, no, nor the acquaintance with Central Square duennas, required to write this column...
...claimed, that he had been quite honest. He is a man without taste; that was clearly demonstrated when he recently invited God to strike him dead in Kansas City (TIME, May 3). But his books have shown just as clearly that he is neither a stupid man nor a poseur. Whether, this time, he were sincere or not, nobody could decide, but everyone said something or other...