Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the two major fashion magazines described the new fashions. Said Vogue: "New York fashion houses . . . have staged a sort of bloodless silhouette revolution . . . and no L85 rules broken. . . ." Said Harper's Bazaar: "Hide your flat stomach. . . . Unsquare your shoulders . . . shoulders are curves on sleeves blown out like blown glass...
Both Vogue and Harper's Bazaar were stoutly blowing a horn for retailers, manufacturers and designers. Since war began, designers have proudly advertised their ability to do much with little cloth-and each year have managed to come up with something...
This year, with a neat banishment of old pencil-slim lines, they did it again. Skirts were longer; waists were laced in; sleeves were rounded at the shoulders. Some ensembles hugged, some billowed and sagged. Hats flared, swirled, ran or circled monotonously (counseled Harper's Bazaar: "Be round-headed...
...Cincinnati's astonishment, the Trollopes proceeded to erect what one traveler described as "the great deformity of the city" - a brick bazaar with "Gothic windows, Grecian pillars ... a Turkish dome, and Egyptian devices." Therein, they planned to sell the gewgaws of Manchester and Birmingham to the savages of Cincinnati...
...story: a lonely young Londoner (Ray Milland), at an apparently fatuous parish bazaar, by mischance speaks a password which puts him in possession of a cake. When various people threaten his life and risk theirs in their effort to get the cake away from him, he begins to realize that he somehow has the key to an elaborate and very sinister Nazi spy-plot. When the detective he hires to help him is murdered, he is in no position to call the matter to the attention of the police, because he has only recently been acquitted of the mercy-killing...