Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here come the neighbors) ... A diamond ring and a diamond watch and bracelet, valued at $6,000 . . . About $4,000 worth of men's furnishings for Mr. Easton (all dressed up but where do we go?). A $1,500 wardrobe and an $1,800 'natural Norwegian blue-fox pouch cape' for Mrs. Easton. A $1,500 luggage set. And, for its first use, a trip to New York 'for a complete glamor...
...course in folklore was going high, wide & handsome. It now has a firm place in the curriculum. The course is not compulsory, but 420 kids this year begged for the chance to try it. They read all about Bunyan, and how he wept so much when his blue ox Babe fell ill, that his tears formed the Great Salt Lake. Then the kids make maps of Utah...
...kids sing cowboy tunes and spirituals, and the songs of mines and railroads. But mostly, their heads are filled with the heroes that grew as the nation grew. "It's more fun than arithmetic," said one eighth-grader. "I wish we had a blue ox like Babe out on my dad's ranch. I'll bet she'd dig him a stock pond just like she dug Lake Michigan...
Said he: "If I play a blue note, I'll frown at the other musicians the way I do when I conduct. Then people won't know I was the one who made the mistake." As it turned out, no one had to frown, least of all "Papa" Monteux. Said he, when it was all over: "There's nothing like that. A quartet is the most pure music-just pure, pure, pure. It's not all messed up with orchestrations...
Manhattan's Bloomingdale's puffed such items as quilted skirts, velveteen trousers (for "after skiing"), and powder-blue parkas embroidered with Alpine flowers described as "too pretty to be tucked in." At Saks Fifth Avenue, Sophie Gimbel paraded a ground-length after-skiing ensemble with stole (price...