Word: chicly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blinking at the unaccustomed educational aura shed by the very walls of Harvard's austere Widener Library, several chic reporters and photographers from the magazine "Glamour" recently set up a station in one of the library corridors with the assignment of drawing a Harvard man into conversation with one of the scintillating models and then snapping the picture...
...Britain, and as Governor of the tiny Bahamas he might have been expected to escape grave political difficulties. At the beginning of the week, indeed, he was not even in the Bahamas. He was in the U.S. preparing to celebrate the fifth anniversary of his marriage to his chic Duchess, and he had just lunched at the White House with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But, with the persistence of a bad conscience, the problem pursued him to his Washington ease, and presently the Duke had left his Duchess and was flying back to the Bahamas...
...woman has learned how to paint pictures that will last forever-or at least 1,000 years-but now she can't paint them any more. For ten years tall, dark-eyed, strikingly chic Chicago socialite Buell Mullen crusaded for an art new-fashioned to fit a chromium, copper and aluminum age and developed a method of painting on metal. Now she has only enough war metal on hand to see her through this year. A mural commissioned by International Business Machines has been shelved for the duration, because neither she nor the company cares...
...this point young Lochinvar, barging in from a south-westerly direction and clad only in a chic pair of close fitting black bathing trunks, splashed into the arena and emerged after several pseudo surface dives, with the salvaged headgear...
...unhealthy or even a serious problem for ordinary people, but scarce enough so one can never forget the subject (a sliver of butter with each meal; perhaps no butter at all would be easier to bear). As for clothes, English women have never been famous for their chic and now they seem to have abandoned the attempt. Cigarets are really scarce. Movies come at inconvenient times...