Word: rococo
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...music wafted from loudspeakers, through streets gaily arched in colored lights, over children tumbling in the snow, across the city preparing to holiday. On the Eve of Christmas, Brussels looked serene and secure, but, like the rest of the world, Brussels felt the underlying fear and tension. Inside the rococo Hotel Metropole, in an atmosphere of crisis, the Foreign Ministers and military chiefs of the twelve Atlantic pact nations met this week to set up the long-delayed military force for defense against Communism...
...well. When young Arthur Houghton, fresh out of Harvard with a well-developed taste for rare and fine books,* went to work in the Corning Glass Works 21 years ago, Steuben was an unwanted, money-losing subsidiary. Glassblowers made their own designs, and tried to outdo each other in rococo examples of their craft. Houghton, whose family controls Corning Glass, was wasting his well-cultivated taste on ordinary glassmaking. He asked for and was given Steuben in 1933, along with a stockpile of "blinding-colored glass monstrosities" and the lusterless annual deficit...
When she was growing up in the gaslit, rococo elegance of post-bellum New York, Mary Bullock Powers seemed an extremely lucky child. She was not only healthy and pretty, but certain to be rich. Her father was brother, partner and heir of Hollis Lyman Powers, a millionaire friend of Vanderbilts and Goulds, and director of the storied Grand Central Hotel. Mary lived in a Fifth Avenue mansion, rode behind gleaming carriage horses and had lovely clothes...
...closed office doors and in conference rooms, the Administration's carpenters sawed and hammered away at the big beams of the Fair Deal platform for 1950. In the White House, departing Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford polished up the State of the Union message. Across the street, in the rococo old building that once housed the State Department, Economic Adviser Leon Keyserling scribbled on stacks of yellow foolscap, drafting the President's economic report. Down another hall, Budget Director Frank Pace Jr. roughed out paragraphs and charts for a draft of next year's budget...