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...they are tired of evil, they need to think of goodness." With shrewd economy she appraised the guests: "shabby top hats, shabby fur coats, fine and disciplined faces . . . the people that open bazaars," the bride, "white as marble," the groom, "like many a bridegroom before him, greenish white in complexion . . . almost podgy with solemnity." She thrilled to the fanfare of trumpets that heralded the bride: "like a shower of shooting stars on a winter sky expressed in sound...
...decades, U.S. women had been striving for what fashion writers called the "American Look." This called for a certain litheness, a casual jauntiness, a healthy complexion, broad shoulders and, above all, slim hips. In pursuit of such lean, athletic elegance, women zipped themselves into elastic girdles, consigned themselves mercilessly to seven-day diets, rolling machines, long walks and meditation over calorie charts. At the same time, they luxuriated in what was known as "freedom of movement"; no joke tickled female audiences quite so much as references to corsets and the Victorian practice of lacing...
...Company. A Scottish-born financier (director of the Bank of England), he was new to the old company when in 1931 he was called to be its governor to get it out of a financial jam. Today, Sir Patrick, 59, a big man with a glowing pink complexion, white toothbrush mustache and shaggy grey eyebrows, knows first-hand the many-sided operations of the company better than any of his predecessors. This week he is in Canada, to add to his knowledge...
Daughter, Daughter. She had red hair and green eyes, and a camellia-white complexion. They called her Magda, a good name for a voluptuous beauty of her type. She joined the Greek Orthodox Church, though her mother was a Roman Catholic Viennese dancer and her father a Jewish merchant (variously described as a moneylender, druggist, innkeeper, garageman). The story goes that Papa Lupescu was very fond of Carol, and liked to refer to him and Magda as "my children." Once, when Carol's brother Nicolas recklessly proposed to marry a commoner, Papa Lupescu chided Magda: "Daughter, daughter! What kind...
Another difference was the way Olga was dressed. Because of the Kremlin's 70-60-20 ratio, Olga wore cotton stockings, her hair was straight, her complexion sallow, her dress ill-fitting. One American in Russia summed up the women's dress situation this way: "There isn't a girdle in the entire Soviet Union...