Word: pompadour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kathe Schratt was an actress. The Emperor met her when she was playing leading roles in the old Burgtheater near the Palace in Vienna, but although she played the part many times on the stage Kathe Schratt was no Pompadour. She recognized that Der Alte Kaiser was completely bourgeois at heart. He dearly loved a good schnitzel and a flask of Muskateller, simple things that he could not enjoy at the palace. Kathe Schratt, like a good housewife, provided such homely comforts. At her little house within easy walking distance of the gates of Schonbrunn (the summer palace) the Emperor...
Jeremiah K. Donovan is a smallish man who brushes up his hair into an impressive pompadour and who wears ice-cream suits and gay bow ties in the summertime. He works as a clerk in a tiny office in Lawyers Title & Guaranty Co., goes home every night to a furnished room in Brooklyn. When newshawks swooped down on him last week they found him unperturbed by his bankruptcy, and quite sane. It was a real bankruptcy, and his assets were only $100, and his liabilities were over $44,000,000-and yet his creditors would lose considerably less than...
...sumptuous palace of a courtesan (Madame de Pompadour) the 13th President of France was inaugurated on Saturday the 13th last week, swore no oath, placed his finger tips upon no Bible...
...this palace have slept Madame de Pompadour, the Emperor Franz Josef, Tsar Alexander I, Queen Victoria and the Sultan Abdul Aziz?though not all at the same time. Here Napoleon Bonaparte signed his second abdication as Emperor of the French. Here since 1873 have slept the twelve Presidents of the French Republic...
...Selma Lagerlof-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Selma Lagerlöf (pronounced "Lahgerlef") has a broad, Scandinavian face with a broad thin mouth that is so straight it looks as if it turned down a little at the corners. She wears her grey hair piled up in a plain, old-fashioned pompadour. Her eyes are steely, steady. A little dimple in her left cheek keeps her from looking like a pretty grim old party. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909). She is the only woman among the 18 "immortals" of the Swedish Academy. Reading...