Word: salons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Campaign headquarters for the fight was the tapestried salon of Madeleine Sylvain Bouchereau, Ph.D. (Sociology, Bryn Mawr), onetime UNRRA welfare officer in Germany and president of the Ligue. Sitting erect on a brocaded chair, Madame Alice Garoute, 75, widow of a Supreme Court justice, sounded the battle cry: "We must make parades, demonstrations! They can shoot down eight of us-but they can't shoot down 800!" She confided later: "I don't care a bit if they shoot me, but I really wouldn't like to go to prison-I detest sleeping in little rooms...
...Long & Short of It. The more fearless molders of U.S. opinion-the advertising agency, the department store and the beauty salon-paid no attention. Bock beer was duly publicized. Women's skirts were raised to what is known as "midcalf" for the new season-a maneuver which would doubtless enable the fiends of fashion to start lowering them again in the fall. Women who had cut off most of their hair in 1949 because they looked so frightful with it long, were urged by Elizabeth Arden to grow it out immediately because they looked so frightful with it short...
...center and showpiece and beneath its 80-ft. crenellated towers Bertha Palmer ruled without challenge. The entrance hall rose, tier on carved tier, three floors to a glass dome. The great fireplace was copied from an Italian palazzo, complete to andirons of smoked silver. There was a Louis XVI salon, a Spanish music room, an English dining room, a Moorish room where the rugs were impregnated with rarest perfumes. There were no outside knobs or locks; anyone wanting to get in (and many did) had to ring...
...remodeled her house (90 in all, including wives). Dressed in their Sunday best, the guests flocked in, shook hands with the American diplomat and her husband, Artist John Anderson, tackled the smörgåsbord, Cokes and aquavit, sang folk songs around the grand piano in the salon, watched documentary movies about New York, baseball and Hawaii. It was 2 a.m. when the party broke up. As the happy guests filed out, each received from hostess and host a pound of American-brand coffee, a rationed and prized rarity in Denmark...