Word: salons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This war! Et - brrrrr! This frrreezing cold! Never had Paris been so cold. Never had it been so hard to be -well dressed in Paris as it was last week. But pride must bear pain. "II jaur souffrir pour etre belle." At the famed House of Worth, the main salon beyond the double doors was empty...
...TIME'S apologies to Grandson Thaxter for confusing his grandmother, Poet Celia, with Actress Phyllis, a distant relative. In her day Celia Thaxter was famed for her poems for children (notably The Sandpiper), her sketches of the grey New Hampshire coast and her summer garden "salon" on the Isles of Shoals, where her father, an exlighthouse-keeper, kept a popular hotel...
Sacha Guitry, unctuous, prolific Parisian Noel Coward, jailed for suspected collaboration, was given his "provisional freedom." Reason: lack of evidence. In jail, 59-year-old, bon vivant Guitry held a daily salon, accepted flowers, pillows, black-market chocolate, U.S. cigarets from admirers. Upon his release, he entered a clinic to calm his nerves, rebuild his appetite. Said a sour acquaintance: "There's nothing wrong with dear Sacha that flattery won't cure...
...four p.m. Sunday [at the Autumn Salon] a thousand gaping people had passed through the Salle Picasso and some three hundred were in the room, when from one corner arose repeated shouts of "'Dérochez!" ("Take 'em down!"), answered by shouts from another corner, "Expliquez!" ("Explain!"), and from a third quarter, "Remboursez!" ("Money back!"). Numerous young men began carefully and nondestructively taking down the pictures from the wall...
There are three theories as to who did it: 1) Beaux Arts students; 2) painters whose works were refused by the Salon; 3) fascist youths. Almost certainly the first is correct, for the following reasons: 1) under the menu posted outside the Restaurant des Beaux Arts there appeared a small blue poster reading: Tous les anti-Picassistes: Rendezvous à 4 heures aujourd'hui; 2) all the demonstrators were very young; 3) the careful handling of pictures was much more like art students than like fascist hooligans; 4) a delegation of unidentified students called at the offices of the newspaper...