Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clothes did it again-won the Best-Dressed Woman title for the second year running. Donors of the title: Manhattan's dressmakers, who sent some 150 hand-picked voters a list of past winners ("merely to refresh your mind") with the grave warning that the affair was "one which we try to conduct seriously...
...pored over blueprints of new plant layouts; they had moved toy men and machines in toy plants; they had tailor-made new models of autos and washing machines in secret rooms, hidden from the prying eyes of competitors. In Washington, the planning had been an off-again-on-again affair. It was off after the Battle of the Bulge, on at the Battle of Germany. Hastily, WPBoss Julius A. Krug had unwrapped the Government's overall plan. In its broad outlines, it was a plan to reconvert cautiously, to pluck the web of controls from industry a strand...
...municipal Playhouse Theater. Director Gweneth Lloyd, energetic Englishwoman who founded the Winnipeg Ballet in 1938, had three new productions in her repertory: Les Coryphées, inspired by Degas' paintings and set to Tchaikovsky music; Kaleidoscope, a suite of national dances; and Dionysos, a mythological affair. Like 15 other Lloyd ballets, including An American in Paris from the Gershwin score, these were choreographic originals...
...Yutang had finally realized his ambition and dream-a "practical" Chinese typewriter. Soon to be marketed was his long-gestated brainchild, a 64-key affair with "a theoretical total of 90,000 characters,† including . . . many new, weird combinations." Declared best-selling Lin happily: the machine was "adequate for all commercial and literary purposes...
...Scottish Presbyterian minister's son who became Archbishop of York at 44, of Canterbury at 64, he was a handsome, worldlywise, rosy-cheeked bachelor. During his Primacy he advocated interdenominational unity, a soft answer on remarriage after divorce - but not in the Simpson affair, of which he said: ". . . strange and sad it is that he [Edward] should have sought his happiness in a manner inconsistent with Christian principles of marriage...