Word: skirtsful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days before, Messieurs les Deputes had started to talk about lace and automobiles. French lacemakers have had a hard time, of it for the past five or six years. Fashion has shunned their stuffs. Last Spring with the return of long skirts and softer, more feminine lines, lace came...
At a celestial fish-fry the Lord God, in the simple frock-coated image of a benignant Negro pastor, creates the world and leaves to inspect his handiwork, declaring, "I'll be back Saturday." Then are exhibited the careers of Adam and Eve, of Cain and of Noah, who...
Thirty years ago the talk of Paris was an opera called Louise, the music and libretto by Frenchman Gustave Charpentier. Parisians liked Louise because it was about Paris. Paris scenes were painted on the backdrops; a tart Paris bourgeois was its heroine, an impoverished poet its hero. Stage pictures of...
Simple Simon is the newest enterprise of Florenz (Follies) Ziegfeld. It sets a record for decorum exceeding even that of the latest Fred Stone revel (TIME, Feb. 24), probably not equalled since the belles of another generation swished their skirts naughtily in the direction of bald heads' row. Its dialog...
"Class two--the modern girl with short skirts and short hair (this was written last year), but a long line. They have an intimate acquaintance with a cigarette, have heard of a pocket flask, and choose their courses according to the unmarried status of the professors. They show a fighting...