Word: rococo
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Adapted by John Dos Passos from a novel by Pierre Louys, filmed in Director von Sternberg's best darkly sardonic style, The Devil Is a Woman is a slow, rococo anecdote about the vicious sex-life of a Spanish cafe dancer (Dietrich) and the middle-aged army officer (Lionel Atwill) whose career is shattered by his morbid passion for her. Infinitely more adult in its approach to human values than such a picture as The Scoundrel (see above), this effort by one of Hollywood's most famed directors is correspondingly more childish in its manner. After winding through...
...heavily tapestried, rococo boardroom of the 34-story New York Life Insurance Building in Manhattan, Director Alfred Emanuel Smith leaned forward in his chair one day last week and said in a firm clear voice: "I move to adopt the committee's report nominating Mr. Hoover." With a single chorus of "Ayes" all gentlemen present thereupon voted to elect Herbert Clark Hoover a director of New York Life, succeeding the late John E. Andrus (TIME, Jan. 7). From Chicago where he was transacting private business on one of his infrequent trips east from Palo Alto, Director Hoover telegraphed...
...nearly to the Potomac stretched the city's redlight district. It was called "Hooker's Division'' after doughty General Joseph ("Fighting Joe") Hooker, who once stabled his troops there and made thoughtful arrangements for their oblectation. The Division's No. 1 house was a rococo manse known as ''Mahogany Hall...
Three days before, in the rococo legislative chamber of Iowa's capitol at Des Moines, all five Governors and representatives of four others had chewed stogies while tousle-headed Milo Reno, the rampaging Des Moines insurance man who fomented the Farmers Holiday movement, read off the list of his demands for agriculture. Hating Secretary Wallace and the AAA as a farmer hates a drought, Reno had asked for a farm code which would remove agriculture from Wallace's supervision, put it entirely under the NRA. Each farmer would be licensed to sell only his proportion of the domestic...
...advertisements of 1883 are reprinted: a rococo display of Colgate & Co., one for "The Only Genuine Vichy" (both advertisers today), Ausable's "Popular Horse Nail." and a "Combined Sofa & Bath Tub. The Common Sense Invention...