Word: rococo
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...Napoleon arrived to loot the ancient rococo palaces and churches before he rushed on into Egypt. The French garrison held until 1800, when the English Fleet hove into view, anchored in Malta's deep harbors and took over the island...
...apartment which he himself planned to the last detail was so arranged he could entertain 100 cocktail guests on the roof, a dinner party of 50, another couple of hundred in the ballroom, all at the same time. Amidst 18th-Century French paintings, Chinese screens and a slightly rococo splendor, Condé Nast presided, bald and genial, peering sphinxlike through pince-nez glasses, the arbiter of his world...
When the R.A.F. blitzed Lubeck last April, they destroyed a literary landmark, the ancestral home of emigre Novelist Thomas Mann. The Mann mansion was an 18th-Century rococo building popularly known as the Buddenbrookshaus after Mann's two-volume first novel, Buddenbrooks-a genealogical account of the rise & fall of a middle-class German family engaged in the Lubeck grain & feed trade...
...That Aztec craftsmen, who decorated every available square inch of their Spanish Gothic and baroque churches, created a native hybrid style known as Mexican churrigueresque, which in turn influenced the baroque and rococo architecture of Spain...
...Came to Dinner (Warner) continues the glorification of that rococo personality, Monty Woolley-known to his friends as "The Beard." As Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside, of George S. Kaufman's and Moss Hart's cutthroat comedy (TMWCTD), Actor Woolley merely transfers to celluloid, for the exquisite benefit of cinemaddicts and posterity, the unexpurgated version of Alexander Woollcott which he played for two years on Broadway. The switch from Broadway to Hollywood is scarcely noticeable...