Word: chic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starry-eyed Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, Manhattan's 1938-39 Glamor Girl, ended her debutante year and went off to summer in the Adirondacks, Stork Club Pressagent Chic Farmer, who picked her for the post, cast about for her 1939-40 successor. His best bet: tall, blonde, nightclubbing, 17-year-old Mary A. Steele, a product of Miss Chapin's finishing school and the daughter of the late Socialite Banker John Nelson Steele. Mused Publicist Farmer: "She has beautiful teeth...
...best-selling Fashion Is Spinach, Elizabeth Hawes, petite, snip-witted, 36-year-old Manhattan dress designer, showed a chic hand with the muckrake as well as a sound knowledge of women's clothes. This time she plays Joan of Arc to clothesbound men. Few years ago Elizabeth Hawes discovered that clothes make the man miserable. She designed some collarless, tieless, pressless, lightweight, colorful models. Men nudged, pointed, but did not buy. In Men Can Take It, Miss Hawes relates with bright disgust what was wrong...
...circuitous route past battlefields, through cobblestoned alleys and over bedecked streets to the Provincial House of Parliament. Over the route Quebec's 140,000 inhabitants stretched thinly but politely, regarding the King curiously, but whispering of the Queen: "Qu'elle est charmante?" "Qu'elle est chic!" In point of fact, the Queen, who has never ranked among Europe's ten best dressed women had never looked smarter. U. S. fashion experts, noting her clothes from news photographs, were pleasantly surprised at the Queen's style...
Last week Chicago's dignified Art Institute tweaked the wits of visitors with a small baby-blue booklet entitled Art Quiz. Helen Parker, chic, quick-witted head of the Institute's department of education, got it up and it was good. In ten sections of ten questions each were such factual stumpers as "Who painted the girl serving chocolate on a well-known brand of cocoa?"; such models of test technique as "Pick your painter: a) Linsey-Woolsey, b) 'Lippo Lippi, c) Boro Budur, d) Sancho Panza, e) Michelozzo Michelozzi"; and queries Jike...
...Curie, 34-year-old younger daughter and biographer of Madame Marie Sklodovska Curie, once declared: "I don't hate science, but it just terrifies me." Last week, slim and chic, she arrived in Manhattan with two objects: 1) the "exciting pleasure of buying some American clothes," and 2) to lecture about her great but dowdy mother and other female scientists...