Word: casualities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Roofs, Old Books. Today, thanks to 56-year-old Louis Wright, the Folger reading room is well known as one of the world's great research centers, wide open to all serious scholars. (Casual visitors are tactfully shunted across the street to the Library of Congress, or to the Folger's own exhibition hall and theater.) Working 18 hours a .day, Wright has improved the library's physical plant (with air conditioning, better lighting), reorganized the 300,000-item collection. He also publishes a lighthearted Report which has delighted jaded librarians round the world...
Trouble with Husbands. Marguerite Courtney's Laurette is different from most current books about theater greats. Ethel Barrymore's Memories and Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A. are never far from casual entertainment. Laurette re-enacts a drama that had more than its quota of despair...
...Bias. In 1938, Claire had her first big success-and speeded up the trend to casual clothes-with her Monastic dress. Until then, American women had little choice of styles between a cotton house dress and an afternoon dress. The Monastic dress gave American fashion a new flexibility that it has never lost. Loose-hanging and cut on the bias,*it did not sell at first. Then a buyer from Manhattan's Best & Co. casually asked for a New York exclusive, and ordered 50 Monastics in wool and 50 in faille. Best's ran a full-page...
Fleeting Joy. While Claire McCardell goes her independent way, she has plenty of competition in the casual-clothing field, since the American Look has spawned a whole school of native designers...
...these designers are merely the vanguard of a fashion army that is still growing, and is only beginning to fill the American woman's demand for clothes for her casual way of life...