Word: adrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried three times previously to become an M. P., but the Baldwin-Chamberlain clique, seeing him merely as an uncut, minor edition of Father Churchill, firmly snuffed each attempt. With the "official Conservatives" and competition both out, and his father in at No. 10 Downing Street, it was easy. Adrian Charles Moreing, M. P. for the Lancashire cotton-weaving town of Preston, died and Randolph popped up as unopposed candidate in the by-election, was duly elected...
...search for native oracles of U. S. fashion is an old one. Hollywood, with a lag between picture production and release, has long had to anticipate (or rise above) the coming styles. Its designers-led by M. G. M.'s Adrian-have a cachet of their own. Last week Hollywood Agent Mitchell J. (for Joseph) Hamilburg, who sold $1,000,000 worth (retail) of Deanna Durbin frocks to the trade in 1938, was organizing a fashion guild of studio designers to dictate the mode. Main drawbacks to Hollywood as a complete substitute for Paris (it has influenced Paris) were...
...alienation of affections, Kovacs was no great shakes in his first tour of the big-time circuit. Last summer, bothered by a tennis elbow, he did not compete in the important Eastern tournaments, but in the late-season Pacific Coast championship he outplayed Australia's top-ranking Adrian Quist and Yugoslavia's top-ranking Franjo Puncec before bowing to Bobby Riggs in the final...
Born. To Janet Gaynor, pert, auburn-haired cinemactress, and Gilbert Adrian, swank fashion designer: their first child, a son. Weight: 7 Ib. 4 oz. Name: Robbin Gaynor...
...Adrian sleeps in one of the biggest beds in Hollywood under a vaulting canopy, has 12-ft. divans in his house, coffee tables sizable enough for billiards, gives his friends as many as a dozen Christmas presents, keeps three pet monkeys and a macaw. Last year he married tiny Janet Gaynor, having previously styled her with bright carrot-colored hair (and her mother with blue hair). He recently popped a surprise by announcing that he was designing maternity clothes for his wife, a nursery wing for his sprawling Spanish house...