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Word: chiffons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heart disease; in Manhattan. She had been writing juveniles and highly popular nonsense verse for some ten years before she turned her hand to detective fiction in 1909. A semi-invalid, she was once given only two years to live, prepared herself for the end by ordering a chiffon gown and cocktail jacket as her deathbed costume, then lived ten years and wrote more than 25 more books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 6, 1942 | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...this side of the Atlantic; that I can tell you." Consort Magda Lupescu, whose given name the curious had discovered was Elena, whose body was taller and thinner than rumor whose hair was blonder than red and had never had a permanent, dazzled the populace with a chiffon blouse, outsize earrings. an anklet, white powder, orange lipstick,' blue eyeshadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...Mexico has also produced a pair of torchy ladies who vocalize in the best black-velvet-gown-and-chiffon-handkerchief manner. One is Adelina Garcia, happily represented by a sad ballad called Desesperadamente (OKeh). The other is glamorous Elvira Rios, familiar to Man hattan nightclubbers. Her cello-voice throbs best on Incertidumbre and Vereda Tropical (Decca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: South of the Bravo | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...appears in every costume the feminine audience could wish, from breech clout to dress suit. Prepossessing young Macdonald Carey is the editress' eventual sweetheart. And Danny Kaye is very funny as a pansy fashion photographer who in true Cecil Beatonish style photographs a suit of armor with a blue chiffon scarf wrapped around its metal neck and stuffed doves perched on its shoulders. In the circus dream he scores the comic hit of the show with a jabberwockian song consisting entirely of the names of Russian composers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Gertie the Great | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...hostess of Fontainebleau decided she needed some big-league help. A constant reader of the New York Herald Tribune's conservative Columnist Mark Sullivan, she wrote to him, emitting an Ericksenian cry of distress. When Mrs. Roosevelt arrived at Fontainebleau, wearing flame-colored chiffon, a necklace of sharks' teeth, great was her surprise to encounter Mr. Sullivan, in white tie & tails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Surprise Party | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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