Word: collarses
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The New 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...
In Paris, Communist Yves Peron denounced the pact's advocates as "men who collaborated with the Nazis and who are now ready to collaborate with the Americans on the same basis." Angry anti-Communist deputies chased him to the lobby; a Gaullist slapped him across both cheeks, drawing blood...
Graham remembered him as a young instructor at North Carolina, where he had been a rangy prodigy who played first base on the scrub baseball team a few years before. Others remembered him on his first trip abroad, a lanky six-footer who used "mouth-filling sesquipedalian words," wore high...
What a nice picture of Herbert Hoover . . . Since he has stopped wearing those old high collars he looks more like "Cactus Jack" Garner all the time.
In the Maritimes, housewives were buying more medium, fewer large eggs. Men's tailors were busy turning worn trouser cuffs and shirt collars. In Montreal, a top ski-suit designer found customers buying for price. Said he: "I'm doing a lot of Ford business, but my Rolls...