Word: vivants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after-concert ceremony in the greenroom: kissing and being kissed by Koussy. Their new conductor was an affectionate man, but not quite the kissing type. Like many another native of Alsace, Charles Munch is a composite of the characteristics of both France and Germany. In him the French bon vivant shines only dimly through a fog of German Weltschmerz: he enjoys life but seldom seems basically happy...
...started when a harassed freshman fied his Yard room to study for an impending final, while his bon vivant roommate held a brief but boisterous testimonial to the temporary end of his own exams...
...doughnutlike oliebollen to sell for a quarter apiece. Every evening in the grammar-school gymnasium, lights burned far into the night while amateur Borculo acrobats sought in vain to match Butcher Bertus van Puffelen's marvelous tumbling feats. A crowd of giggling farm girls rehearsed a tableau vivant, and the village band started practicing The Stars and Stripes Forever. Under the leadership of hefty Grocer Albert Siebers, the rusty Achterhoekse Volksdansers (square dancing) society reconvened, to try out their old steps to the accompaniment of an accordion...
Died. Francis Welch ("Frank") Crowninshield, 75, longtime editor of the late, famed Vanity Fair, pioneer U.S. collector of modern French art, elegant bon vivant of the old school; after an operation; in Manhattan. Frank Crowninshield made Vanity Fair a gourmet's selection of new, high-flavored literary and artistic dishes, sandwiched bright new writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anita Loos and E. E. Cummings between the paintings of Matisse, Segonzac, Pascin, Laurencin, and seasoned the whole with Covarrubias caricatures and Steichen photographs. At 71, after observing that "it would make a frightful mess if I died and left...
...Eugenic Reale. Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, holds the party's foreign portfolio. He is a physician, a brilliant conversationalist and a bon vivant who has the puffy, pouting look of a constipated baby...