Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midst of the Golden Triangle the Smithfield Evangelical Church raised a finger to God-a spire constructed of wrought iron. But Frick, Carnegie and the Mellons had left a city which was closer to man-a city in which was concentrated all the evils and ailments and shocks and problems of the nation's industrial...
Contrary to the original estimate of $10,000 damage to Moors' first floor, workmen said yesterday the figure would be closer...
Other lectures in the series, sponsored by the Council to establish closer contact between the College and students, will be on "Athletics at Harvard," "Rhodes Scholarships and Henry Fellowships," and "Harvard's Admission System...
...where the Old Northwest Territory Art Exhibit competition drew off professional work and left the amateurs a show to themselves, Amateur Verne Alkire walked away with three prizes. But her conventional paintings of boats in a harbor, gladiolas, and a nursery, daubed between kitchen and barnyard duties, were no closer to the Illinois prairies than ex-Coastguardman Garo Antreasian's carefully composed painting of a sordid street in Indianapolis' South Side, which took grand prize at the Old Northwest...
...Look was already old hat. The great wheel of fashion was turning onward from the bustling '90s to the tubular '20s: the new line was boyish and slim. U.S. dressmakers had lifted skirts closer to the knees. Paris houses showed short, narrow evening gowns with huge, trainlike attachments and bathing suit tops. There was a host of minor gimmicks: the boyish haircut, jagged at the edges; the sleek "attenuated siren look"; huge black fur muffs; long umbrellas; Edwardian gloves; the lacquered evening "back-of-the-head bandeau"; Eton collars; the coal scuttle; the Picasso bicorne...