Word: salons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President de Gaulle's ministers sat down in the big Salon des Portraits of the Elysées Palace, the pressures for a decision on Algeria were closing in on France. Operation Binoculars, the new military campaign to crush the rebels, was going slowly. Within the week President Eisenhower would arrive to hear what, if any, new solution De Gaulle had to settle the five-year war. "A climate of expectancy and uncertainty mixed with apprehension reigns," reported Le Monde. "The moment is coming when the game is either lost...
...Like his hero. Author Stuart left Ireland in 1940 and spent most of the war years as a lecturer in Berlin; 2) Stuart was once highly praised by W. B. Yeats, once married to the adopted daughter of Maude Gonne, the Egeria of Yeats's nationalist literary salon; his Cassidy has an Irish wife and admits once knowing Yeats "quite well." At one point in the story Cassidy finds a cache of Irish whisky; Author Stuart's style resembles it-warming in small doses only, smoky and unpredictable. Where Eva moves to her promised land with oversure...
...fifty-two and fat." There was only $2 in her purse, but there was plenty of gin in the old girl yet. Within six months she opened the first of her three speakeasies, in a mansion on East 52nd Street-it was not a saloon, she insisted, but a salon. For entertainment Belle featured such "continental bizarrie as will be cayenne to the jaded mental tongue." For refreshment she offered the usual bootleg booze, champagne (at $30 a bottle) for the discriminating. One night she dared to charge Al Capone $1,000 for a round of soft drinks...
...clock and noon, visitors are admitted to a whole succession of magnificent rooms in which every perfect detail seems to breathe history. The mid-18th century Venetian Room with its Murano glass chandelier may well surpass any interior of the same period remaining in Venice itself. The Grand Salon contains a golden cradle that bears eloquent witness to the natural expectations of a Doria-Pamphili heir: carved on the base are a bishop's staff, a doge's hat and a Pope's three-tiered crown...
...rate, this show provided Bostonians with a local counterpart of a long-standing Parisian tradition, in which painters excluded from official exhibitions have banded together to put on their own show. Thus Boston had its own salon des refuses...