Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into fashions, became Paris editor of Harper's Bazaar. As a career woman, she had extravagant energy, ambition and good humor. At Paris fashion-selection time, she worked hard all day, entertained visiting buyers until 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning, was bright as a lark when her office opened...
After the Lowlands invasion, Louie Macy returned to Manhattan, soon quit Harper's Bazaar to start a swank whole sale dress shop. Her first spring style show was a flat flop. She tried again with a fall & winter collection. This flopped, too, and she turned to being a nurse's aide. She was the model for a recruiting poster prepared by the Office of Civilian Defense...
...Washington 70 fantastic hats assembled in WPB's huge board room. Under the hats sat the leading ladies of the fashion press, from Carmel Snow of Harper's Bazaar to Ladies' Home Journal's Wilhela Cushman. The women's editors had been specially summoned from New York, Boston and Philadelphia by the chief of WPB's clothing section, astute Merchant Harold Stanley Marcus, executive vice president of Dallas, Tex.'s famed Neiman-Marcus store, to hear what the Government wanted done about women's & children's clothes...
...most gifted U.S. short-story writers, Irwin Shaw is also one of the most successful. All but one of the 20 stories in this volume are collected from The New Yorker, Story, Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. Some of the best...
...embarrassing. But as an ally of the democracies he put up with it-perhaps not too painfully. Speech was now so free that the Parliament was delaying the transport bill with interminable debate. Individual opinions were so tolerated that swastikas might be seen on many walls, and in the bazaar hawkers sold portraits of Adolf Hitler. And anyone who wanted could listen to his radio and hear Axis propaganda. The Shah confessed himself a frequent listener to Japanese broadcasts in Iranian. "The Japanese," he said, "never mention themselves, but always talk of what Germany can do for Iran. They . . . invariably...