Word: rococo
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...chinless character, seated in a rococo chair, casually puffing squares and triangles from a cigaret...
Eager adolescents jampacked Paris' gilded, rococo Opera House. Before the curtain went up, they dutifully pored over the program notes on "le jazz hot" which the Air Forces Band was going to play. But what they really came to hear was the band's shy, Detroit-born, 24-year-old Sergeant Johnny Desmond. He has been spreading havoc among European bobby-soxers since he first sang over BBC, five months...
...Third Republic's Senate Chamber (a gilded, rococo wing of the Luxembourg Palace) the new Consultative Assembly held its first session. Created in Algiers more than a year ago, the Assembly had been reorganized, its membership upped from 102 to 248. Resistance groups held 148 seats. Third Republic parliamentarians untainted by collaboration 60, overseas delegates...
...windy halls were here, no balconies for strutting. Laurel and cypress shut in the rococo house; stained glass windows kept its rooms in decadent twilight. Benito Mussolini shuffled to his desk, shuffled through a morning's paper work. His three physicians-two Italians, one German-had warned him sternly: a dyspeptic Duce could not live like a lion...
...operatic Mayor Fiorello H. La-Guardia. Last week he began practicing what he had preached, sponsored a highly promising opera company of the City's own. He had been itching to do so ever since two years ago, when the City inherited a massive masterpiece of Turkish-bath rococo, formerly known as Mecca Temple, which had succumbed through tax delinquency...