Word: salons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot of a marble and bronze stairway was a red plush and Gobelin tapestry sofa (sold to Harry Jacobs for $410) on which Mr. Long and the late Ella Wilson Long used to sit only at Christmas when they gave presents to the servants. In the French salon beneath an enormous pear-shaped crystal chandelier (sold to Dr. Abraham Sophian for $470), was a walnut and gold-leaf player piano (to Mrs. John K. Jasper; $1,325), a matching walnut cabinet for music rolls (to Mrs. Victor Schutte; $87.50). A rose and ivory French hand-piled rug was appraised...
...worse: their quarters were underground, insanitary, overcrowded, their bodies weaker, their spirits lower. Homosexuality grew to such an extent that one of the most outstanding perverts, who played the feminine lead in their amateur shows, was treated respectfully as a real woman, ''achieved the creation of a sort of salon." When one day the prisoners saw the U. S. fleet steaming past their island, they knew the War was lost. But they still had many weary months to wait. When Ex-Prisoner Kuncz finally got back to Hungary, "we got out of the train in Gyor and bought some horsemeat...
Assiduous U. S. gallery snoopers and the Paris Salon d'Autonne have known about Nura since 1925. She studied in Kansas City's Art Institute, at the Art Students League in New York and in Chicago where she met her Painter-Husband Eduard Buk Ulreich. Buk Ulreich nicknamed her Nura because he "never calls people by their right names." Her right name is Norah Woodson Ulreich. When she and her husband do murals together they sign them Bukannura. Living in a Manhattan studio, they have no children because Nura feels a real one might engross...
...resigned to go into business for himself, reputedly with the backing of Mrs. Gilbert Miller (daughter of Broker J. S. Bache), Elsie de Wolfe and the Comtesse de Vallambrosa. Mainbocher, youngest of the currently prominent houses, turns out chic and tasteful gowns in a chic and severe salon on Avenue George...
...possible on the palmy side of his boss, so consequently, when his table-setting expert returned, he fared forth to the President's lodgings in order to put to the most rigorous inspection possible, his employee's handiwork. With an accomplice, he had himself admitted to the dining salon by a servant, and right away commenced volubly, to a degree which he was certain could not fall to reach the right ears, to find fault with every least possible detail, accompanying those derogatory remarks with gestures whose practical results went merely to disarrange what had been in effect, a perfectly...