Word: salons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...playing. Suddenly in the refreshment room where a hundred guests were dining, the loud speaker began to broadcast what was being said in the snugglery behind the potted palms. Aghast, "Snorks" pricked up her ears, realized that at least two reputations were at stake and dashed from the refreshment salon, locking the door behind her. Before the other guests could follow in whooping cry, "Snorks'' had warned the spooners, smuggled them out the back way, in a style reminiscent of the fiction of her father...
...March 1?Automobile salon at Palace Hotel, San Francisco...
...Annual Pacific Coast Automobile Salon at Los Angeles; Feb. 22-March i-at San Francisco...
...talent, were very ready to study what other men, similarly equipped, had accomplished before them. Matisse spent enough time in the Louvre, copying Chardin and other Old Masters long before he began to do his own work. But his own work, so soon as he showed it in the Salon des Indépendents, made him the captain of a brave and gay brigade: André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Emil Othon Friesz, Raoul Dufy and indisputably first among them, Henri Matisse...
...fast as she can turn them off her easel. She has never painted a man, only young women with long, equivocal eyes like her own. She had never painted a blonde girl until she visited Norway two years ago and met one she admired. She once sent to the Salon D'Automne a self portrait, nude except for black silk stockings. For all social functions she plasters her face and paints a masque on it, a masque for whatever mood she is feeling. The brunettes in her paintings are nearly always herself. She has never taken a drawing lesson...