Word: cachet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...League pennant last season after 21 years of trying). The picture celebrates the travails and triumphs of a hammy Brooklyn baseball team, the civic and athletic regeneration of its manager, "Butterfingers" Maguire (Lloyd Nolan). The inspiration is authentic, but the film fumbles the atmosphere, fails to capture the special cachet of Brooklyn and "dem bums...
...Karl Baedeker's son Fritz catalogued Britain for future tourist generations with the same 19th-Century Teutonic thoroughness his father had lavished on the rest of Europe. But few British cathedrals, Christopher Wren churches or public monuments rated the final cachet of Baedekerian approval -two asterisks. Salisbury Cathedral did, but the Houses of Parliament got only...
...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...
Georges Mandel, terrifying Minister of the Interior who had set about ruthlessly suppressing dissension in the land, then roared that he would order a lettre de cachet (imprisonment without trial) of anyone advocating separate peace-including Cabinet Ministers. The argument crackled and burned. Suddenly heavy-faced Edouard Daladier stormed out of the room. Sarraut and de Monzie, spaniel-like Ministers of Education and Public Works, followed...