Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roman Catholic Caroline? Or would she be converted? The answer from Buckingham Palace and Monaco's royal palace was unanimous: No. In fact, Charles, now on naval duty in the Far East, and Caroline, a student at a Paris convent school, have never met. -:Admirers of the 1930s movie Ecstasy liked the unadorned way Hedy Lamarr took to the water-but they might be surprised to learn that Hedy, now sixtyish, has genuine nautical skills. She is co-inventor of a system for guiding torpedoes to their targets that was considered for use in World War II. This news...
...number of literary fashions. Some early sea stories have been compared to Conrad, though they are far less romantic. Hanley has been called a proletarian writer, too, mainly on the raw strengths of a fictional tetralogy about the hard lives of Irish workers in Liverpool, which began in the 1930s with The Furys...
...Died. Arline Judge, 61, Hollywood glamour girl of the 1930s and '40s (One in a Million, Lookin' for Trouble), who had almost as many marriages as movies to her credit; of an apparent stroke; in West Hollywood. Among Judge's seven husbands were Film Director Wesley Ruggles, Tin Millionaire Dan Topping, and later his brother...
...Provocation. The 1930s theme was echoed by every Paris couturier from Givenchy, Balmain, Scherrer and Lapidus to Dior, St. Laurent and Chanel. Marc Bohan, Dior's successor, set the early pace. His skirts were long and supple. His jackets, closed at the waist with a narrow belt, were full and casual. Evening dresses, as diaphanous as lingerie, hint of luxury...
...post is named after an Italian liberal who died in an airplane crash while dropping anti-fascist pamphlets on Rome in the 1930s. The Italian government claims de Bosis' plane ran out of gas, Prodi said...