His apt jest at the endurance of artists' models, his easy allusion to the hardening effects of fashionable decolletage, is the measure of his dexterous success; his mention of hotel furniture on the terminal moraines of the returning Alpine glaciers, just a happy touch of that flavouring of reality which in abundance would have altogether overwhelmed his purpose.
"Underground Man"
Gabriel Tarde
They were always running down to Chicago to hear Galli-Curci; and when it came to costume-diamond bracelet, daring decolletage, large feather fans, and brilliant-buckled slippers-you couldn't tell their women from the city dwellers.
"Half Portions"
Edna Ferber
Mrs. G. Manville Smith, in an evening gown whose decolletage was discussed from the Haley House to Gerretson's department store next morning, was always a guest at Bauer's studio affairs.
"Fanny Herself"
Edna Ferber