Word: pompadour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dance Time. When it came time for bristling, mustachioed Sammartino to defend himself, he spoke with measured insolence. "We have not come here to do obeisance to the lash nor to dance to Madame Pompadour's tune," said he. "This is not a fashionable nightclub or the anteroom of a palace. It is the parliament of a free people, and it should be made plain to the people here & now that this Chamber will not obey the commands of meddling old colonels, nor heed orders given in perfumed letters from the boudoir of any ruler...
...Down!" Evita, fresh from her triumph in Spain (TIME, June 23) and a greeting from the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Sforza, stepped to the Embassy's balcony to receive the applause she expected. A straw hat with two huge roses topped her honey-colored hair piled in a pompadour; her black silk dress with pink print flowers was pulled tight...
...directors": John Robert Powers, Columnist Walter Winchell, Publicist Steve Hannagan, Cinemogul Robert Goldstein, Singer Morton Downey. "They're wonderful," she says. "I couldn't move without their advice." The board thinks she's rather wonderful, too. Says Powers: ". . .A modern version of Lady Hamilton and Pompadour. I couldn't be prouder...
...Comrade Pompadour. At last week's memorial ceremonies, a huge, floodlit portrait of Lenin looked down from the façade of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. But when the official party arrived, the crowd's eyes turned from Lenin's benignly sly features to those of Premier Stalin. Inside, on the red-draped stage, Georgi Fiodorovich Alexandrov, chief of the Party Central Committee's Bureau of Propaganda and Agitation, delivered the memorial address...
From Soviet ex-Minister to Sweden Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontay, 74 (also known as the Madame Pompadour of the Russian Revolution), came a bit of rhapsodic reminiscence: "I remember the room in Smolny where the Central Committee met. The windows looked out on to the Neva, and a strong wind from the river rattled the panes. One electric lamp burned dimly over a small table around which the Committee members met. The situation was tense. ... On Lenin's right sat Stalin in his dark Russian shirt, his silent self-possession forming a strong contrast to the excited tirades of some...