Word: salons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ashore, Sailor Danielsen lost his sealegs, wavered into trouble. On a spree in London one night, he smashed through a glass door in a salon of the swank Dorchester Hotel, where the Norwegian government in exile was meeting. Later, at the same hotel, he tried acrobatic stunts from the chandeliers. At war's end his disciplinary record was so bad that his father, Admiral Edvard C. Danielsen, tossed him out of the navy...
...four popes, 98 cardinals and 42 papal nuncios since it opened in 1701, the academy on the Piazza della Minerva has had a checkered career. Three times popes have seen fit to close it. In 1829 a contemporary chronicler wrote: "If in the city or in some fashionable salon you meet a young man wearing perfumed ecclesiastical garb and whose hair is much pomaded and who shows other outward signs of levity, you cannot be mistaken if you come to the conclusion that he either belongs to the Ecclesiastical Academy, or pretends...
...entertaining and, now & again, incisive. But it emerges less comedy than drama, and less drama than a problem-play department store-3rd Floor: Career Women, Psychic Paralysis, Drugs; 4th Floor: Infidelity, Homosexuality, Adjustment Bureau. Often the elevator has scarcely time to stop, keeps rushing on-5th Floor: Duty Salon, Freudian Snack...
Finally, Sterling turned up the fact that the painting is reproduced in an engraving of the Paris Salon of 1801-which David boycotted. The Salon catalogue for that year does, however, list several portraits by an obscure follower of David named Constance Marie Charpentier, and a contemporary clipping describes one of them as "a young lady almost entirely in shadow." That one, Sterling reasons, is probably the Met's picture...
...lift up the offered hand towards himself, but incline himself over the hand, lightly brushing it with his lips. It is a mark of respect which one should address only to a married woman. It is rather difficult to execute and is not recommended in the street. In the salon, it is advisable to reserve the gesture only for the mistress of the house. Repeated hand-kissing . . . can rapidly become rather comical...